Housing Quotes · Page 3

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

— Nicola Sturgeon

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

— Gregory Meeks

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

— Virginia Postrel

Are not the worst examples of architecture to be found in private enterprise in cheap jerry-built homes?

— Hugh Dalton

Having an awful landlord can be a good thing, it can bring you together as a household.

— Josh Widdicombe

No single housing finance institution should be too big to fail.

— Jerome Powell

In general, more affordable housing correlates with lower income inequality.

— Annie Lowrey

An eviction is an incredibly time consuming and stressful event.

— Matthew Desmond

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

— Tom Golisano

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

The government can build physical infrastructure in the form of housing for the poorest of the poor, and availability of energy, toilets…

— Ram Nath Kovind

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

The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.

— Matthew Desmond

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a…

— George Osborne

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and…

— Cory Booker

A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the…

— Alan Greenspan

Homelessness isn't just an issue in San Francisco. It's an issue throughout California and up and down the West Coast. We need…

— London Breed

In June 2005, mortgage rates were at 40-year lows, and risk premiums on mortgage securities were at all-time lows. Once the banks…

— Michael Burry

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

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

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

There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in…

— Nat Hentoff

If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone…

— John F. Kennedy

After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the…

— Thomas Sowell

If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry…

— Malcolm X

“Giving away free housing, it turned out, was actually a windfall for the state budget. State economists calculated that a drifter living…

— Rutger Bregman

“In order for our land contribution model to be complete, we have to consider two more aspects of affordable housing. First, we…

— Martin Adams

Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a…

— George R. R. Martin

Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have…

— Chuck Grassley

We believe in a Boston where housing is more than a commodity, it's our community.

— Marty Walsh

Debates about housing dynamics are often vague, anectdotal, and ad hominem.

— Jake Auchincloss

Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.

— Bill Ackman

Hatred doesn't just hurt the people being hated, it hurts the people housing the hatred

— Aja Monet

Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing.

— Rick Ross

When the housing market fell in Las Vegas, we got so many Rolex and Tag Heuer watches it was ridiculous.

— Corey Harrison

Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities.

— Juan Manuel Santos

I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance.

— Thomas Menino