Housing Quotes · Page 8

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

— Phillip Moffitt

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

— Zaha Hadid

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

— Stephon Marbury

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

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

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

My - I grew up in - I grew up in public housing. My dad, for most of my life, worked for…

— Lloyd Blankfein

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them…

— Al Lewis

There are several ways in order to reduce the housing problem.One way is to allow a developer to buy land more cheaply…

— George Deukmejian

Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.

— Carolyn McCarthy

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

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so…

— Desmond Tutu

More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to…

— Michelle Alexander

One has to say that they [Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt] were pioneering to some extent. They didn't know that some of the…

— William A. Rusher

Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was…

— J. C. Watts

I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in…

— John F. Kennedy

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

Eviction comes with a record. Just like a criminal record can hurt you in the jobs market, eviction can hurt you in…

— Matthew Desmond

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

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

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

— London Breed

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

— Sean Strub

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

— Alphonso Jackson

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

Prices will fall only if the supply of housing grows faster than the demand for residence.

— Jake Auchincloss

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

— Daniel Quinn

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

— London Breed

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

— Anonymous

Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs.

— Kerry Cohen

British housing stock has so much potential to be dragged into the 21st century.

— George Clarke

The demand for adequate social housing provision is something that transcends race, religion and settled status.

— Ash Sarkar

Its unfair to have cities where parking is free for cars and housing is expensive for people.

— Donald Shoup

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

— Marc Lamont Hill

Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

— Mark Zandi