Housing Quotes · Page 6

I'm going to rely upon the advice of affordable housing experts to make sure we meet the public's expectations.

— Ted Wheeler

We need to reform our land use policies to build more housing in urban centers and near transit.

— London Breed

I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

— William J. Clinton

You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.

— Matthew Desmond

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

— Kenny Troutt

The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.

— Nicola Sturgeon

We have got to build more affordable homes in the south of England, we've just got to.

— James Cleverly

If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.

— Matthew Desmond

Healthcare providers have helped me see that decent, safe housing can promote physical and mental wellness; and engaged citizens have shown me…

— Matthew Desmond

I bought a house right before the housing crisis happened. So I paid too much and then I was stuck with it…

— Hamish Linklater

I think it's not just a matter of building more houses, more flats. We need to have the right policies. I want…

— Carrie Lam

There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away.

— Tom Golisano

I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due…

— Jack Layton

Increases in stabilized rents impact rent stabilized tenants directly, but they also affect the affordability of all New Yorkers' rents.

— Letitia James

Any one of us could fall on hard times. Work and housing have the potential to be unstable, especially for those earning…

— Layla Moran

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as…

— Sonia Sotomayor

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them…

— John Major

When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why…

— Milton Friedman

Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent…

— Matthew Desmond

“Many people in Nixon’s camp had genuine faith in affirmative action. It wasn’t designed to fail, but it wasn’t designed to succeed,…

— Tanner Colby

In a speech earlier today President Bush said if Iraq gets rid of Saddam Hussein, he will help the Iraqi people with…

— Jay Leno

Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care,…

— Ai-jen Poo

I just thought someone has to figure out how to break through that barrier and create a narrative for a black super…

— Kerry James Marshall

My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very…

— Sigmar Gabriel

It is no exaggeration to say that rising inequality has driven many of the 99 percent into a financial ditch. It also…

— Robert H. Frank

From their struggles to establish dominance over each other, siblings become tougher and more resilient. From their endless rough-housing with each other,…

— Adele Faber

Already, new forms of short-term and long-term rental housing are popping up in some metro areas. You can take on a house…

— Richard Florida

“He had been haunted his whole life by a mild case of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite…

— Dan Brown

“At all times it is a bewildering thing to the poor weaver to see his employer removing from house to house, each…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

If you look at what's happened to the stock market, if you look at what's happened to housing values, if you look…

— William J. Clinton

When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a…

— William J. Clinton

“If I am not the legal resident of the apartment you cannot evict me. You cannot evict Mrs. Tuttle, who is the…

— Shirley Jackson

At seventeen I made seventeen thousand living in public housing.

— Nas

I grew up in a public housing development right across the street from Trump Golf Course.

— Ritchie Torres

When you look at the wealth gap - the racial wealth gap - all of that is very much connected to housing.

— Raphael Warnock

Housing is a human right, not a bargaining chip to let fall between bureaucratic cracks.

— Cori Bush

Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.

— John Prescott

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

— Elliott Abrams

Housing is a relatively small sector of the economy, and its decline should be self-correcting.

— Janet Yellen

A home is still the biggest asset that most Americans own.

— Mark Zandi