Housing Quotes

“We had a bubble in housing.”

— Alan Greenspan

Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.

— Matthew Desmond

If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker.

— Jamie Dimon

Britain needs to build a lot more houses.

— Nick Boles

The reward for success in St. Paul is eviction.

— Barbara Harris

Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.

— Matthew Desmond

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

— Jonathan Kozol

We must recognize housing policy is workforce policy.

— Phil Scott

Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Let's do away with the Departments of Education, Energy Commerce, Housing and Urban Development.

— Richard Mourdock

I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.

— Gregory Meeks

There are no magical solutions to our nation's housing problem.

— Grace Dent

“In short, rent control reduces the rate of housing turnover.”

— Thomas Sowell

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

— James K. Glassman

As more and more families decide to build their future in Connecticut, it's vital we invest in housing.

— Ned Lamont

All New Yorkers have the right to decent housing, regardless of income and rent.

— Letitia James

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so…

— Desmond Tutu

Gaza will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews. This will also serve to ease the housing crisis…

— Moshe Feiglin

So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give…

— Josephus Daniels

The proportionality of what has happened to America because of unemployment and housing makes everything else look like a flea on a…

— Dylan Ratigan

If I say that I am more interested in preventing the slaughter of large whales than I am in improving housing conditions…

— Richard Dawkins

Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New…

— Randy Neugebauer

After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for…

— Cory Booker

When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability…

— Matthew Desmond

Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls,…

— James Howard Kunstler

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

If you like what Wall Street did for the housing market, you'll love what Wall Street is doing for commodities. Goldman's ability…

— Carl Levin

Rent control is one policy that economists universally would oppose. It is a grossly inefficient way of allocating housing space and, of…

— James M. Buchanan

Eviction comes with a record. Just like a criminal record can hurt you in the jobs market, eviction can hurt you in…

— Matthew Desmond

When I talk about my artist parents, people imagine a bohemian environment and think, 'Aha, so that's where he gets it from!'…

— David Mitchell

As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want…

— Vito Fossella

I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they…

— Michael Moore

One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we…

— Christine Jennings

“A universal housing voucher program would carve a middle path between the landlord’s desire to make a living and the tenant’s desire,…

— Matthew Desmond

“Poor neighborhoods provided their residents with quite a lot. In the trailer park, residents met people who knew how to pirate cable,…

— Matthew Desmond

What Habitat does is much more than just sheltering people. It’s what it does for people on the inside. It’s that intangible…

— Millard Fuller

No matter the location of the build site, the religion, gender or ethnicity of the homeowners or volunteers, there is a sense…

— Jonathan Reckford

We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does…

— David Blankenhorn

Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial…

— Michelle Alexander