I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home. — Gregory Meeks Copy Share Image
I lived in public housing and had to struggle with depression and substance abuse. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
“Vauxhall. I like to use the public housing a few blocks away for my little adventures.” — Jeff Abbott Copy Share Image
“Brownsville has a greater concentration of public housing projects than anywhere in the United States.” — Kay S. Hymowitz Copy Share Image
I grew up in a public housing development right across the street from Trump Golf Course. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
Public housing in New York City has been so savagely defunded by the federal government. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families. — Carolyn McCarthy Copy Share Image
My - I grew up in - I grew up in public housing. My dad, for most of my life, worked for… — Lloyd Blankfein Copy Share Image
Ive introduced eight bills to fight for support for our small businesses and ensure we get funding to rebuild public housing -… — Cedric Richmond Copy Share Image
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty… — Jewel Copy Share Image
we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
When we came to this country, unfortunately, my father lost his job, and we were this close to destitution. We were put… — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Whether it's public housing, or project based Section 8, or mandatory inclusionary housing, or rent regulated housing, there should be a national… — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
“public housing was mostly for working- and lower-middle-class white families. It was not heavily subsidized, and tenants paid the full cost of… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
Public housing is off-limits to you if you have been convicted of a felony. For a minimum of five years, you are… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Public housing officials are free to discriminate against you on the basis of criminal records, including arrest records. And so, you know,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Some families evicted from the Flats settled in a segregated development, also created by the federal government, that later opened on the… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
As the data from the past decade clarify, there is no evidence that poverty causes crime but a great deal of evidence… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
“In the 1990s, the Clinton administration experimented with a program called Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing, which gave poor families in… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades — Marc Lamont Hill Copy Share Image
I am going to make it a priority to fight for full federal funding for public housing. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
As someone who grew up in public housing, I've known these conditions. — London Breed Copy Share Image
With the Korean economy faltering, Seoul City will do its best to address problems regarding people's economic livelihoods - the most important… — Park Won-soon Copy Share Image
I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did. — Richard Baker Copy Share Image
Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing assistance. The opposite is true. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
By laying the groundwork for a system centered on home ownership rather than the public housing popular in Europe, the New Deal… — Jonathan Alter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One of the things for me, as a biographer, that is so significant is for Eleanor Roosevelt - the child who never… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Public housing projects as well as private landlords are free to deny housing to people with criminal records. In fact, you don't… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
