Housing Quotes · Page 8

And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.

— Franklin Raines

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

— Ted Wheeler

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

— Alphonso Jackson

HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.

— Sean Strub

Our soldiers and their families are benefiting. They deserve good, quality housing and they need it.

— Jim Walsh

We lived in a housing project graced by the architectural style of Early Chicken Coop.

— Clara Fraser

We need a government policy all-out in favor of more, denser housing.

— Glenn Kelman

A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.

— Phillip Moffitt

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

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

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

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

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

According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means…

— Paul Craig Roberts

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

— Vito Fossella

“Housing projects are a great metaphor for the government's relationship to poor folks: these huge islands built mostly in the middle of…

— Jay-Z

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

There are times when a market such as housing, transportation or the stock or mortgage market keep rising and people with capital…

— Philip Kotler

In San Francisco, our businesses, healthcare services, workforce, and housing will always be Open to All.

— London Breed

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

— Zaha Hadid

We face major issues in our country. From the border to climate and energy, to housing and cost of living.

— Tom Suozzi

We're planting trees to break up the concrete jungle. We're building public transportation and affordable housing.

— Kevin de Leon

The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping.

— David Lereah

I'm from the housing projects, where people can't afford $150 shoes.

— Stephon Marbury

There are only two markets, ultraluxury and subsidized housing.

— Rafael Vinoly

The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

— Matthew Desmond

If you want to decrease housing costs in Norway, the most important thing is to build more.

— Erna Solberg

We can't solve the issues of homelessness without more housing.

— London Breed

Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

— Daniel Quinn

Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa.

— Anonymous

As someone who grew up in public housing, I've known these conditions.

— London Breed