Housing Quotes · Page 2

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

— Jonathan Kozol

Gentrification and housing shortages are complex issues.

— Sarah Jeong

Well, my grandmother, she raised me in public housing.

— London Breed

I'm a kid from housing estate in Glasgow.

— Jim Kerr

Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction.

— Joshua A. Tucker

African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

— Matthew Desmond

People should have affordable places to live. That's a fundamental right.

— Bria Vinaite

I lived in public housing and had to struggle with depression and substance abuse.

— Ritchie Torres

I am very open to looking at potential tax changes to improve housing affordability.

— Gladys Berejiklian

In fact, Donald [Trump] was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis.

— Hillary Clinton

Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial.

— Matthew Desmond

There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

To create a housing shortage in a huge country, heavily wooded, with a small population -- ah, that's proof of pure political…

— Richard J. Needham

We need greater access to housing in this state to help grow New Hampshire's workforce and retain and attract millennials.

— Chris Sununu

We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.

— Tariq Ramadan

A part of me would like to see the money go to hospitals or housing, but I have benefited so greatly from…

— Patrick Marber

I've introduced eight bills to fight for support for our small businesses and ensure we get funding to rebuild public housing -…

— Cedric Richmond

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a…

— John Hume

I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing…

— Ben Bernanke

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

We offer a better way for dealing with persistent poverty in this country. A way that shows poor Americans the world beyond…

— Paul Ryan

The early feminists were pro-life. And really, abortion is a huge disservice to women, and it hasn't been presented that way. As…

— Patricia Heaton

If we're going to make our immigration system work, then we have to be prepared to talk honestly and without fear about…

— Donald Trump

I typically shoot underwater with my regular camera in an underwater housing, and then I usually have two big strobes that I…

— Brian Skerry

So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing…

— Rush Limbaugh

It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such…

— David Lammy

Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers,…

— Carl Guardino

In societies that worship money and success, the losers become objects of scorn. Those who work the hardest for the least are…

— Michael Parenti

“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

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 voucher program is but one potential policy recommendation. Let others come. Establishing the basic right to housing in America could…

— Matthew Desmond

“A single eviction could destabilize multiple city blocks, not only the block from which a family was evicted but also the block…

— Matthew Desmond

One of the most insidious consequences of the present burden of personal income tax is that it strips many middle class families…

— William Henry Chamberlin

The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way…

— Thomas Sowell

During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with…

— James Q. Wilson

“When several patients committed suicide in the days leading up to their eviction, a group of psychiatrists published a letter in Psychiatric…

— Matthew Desmond

What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights.

— Glenn Beck

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

— Letitia James

“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