I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
“Families who spend more on housing spend less on their children.” — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Actually, high housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living. — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The proportionality of what has happened to America because of unemployment and housing makes everything else look like a flea on a… — Dylan Ratigan Copy Share Image
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I was a convicted felon. No one wanted to give me a job, I couldn't get any government assistance, and I couldn't… — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an American?… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
A lot flows from the question: Is having decent, stable housing part of what it means to live in this country? And… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Most of the people in the South Bronx are practical rather than ideological. Their concerns are bread and butter, health and housing,… — Ritchie Torres 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
With housing it's something even more dramatic than that, because most people aspire to own their own home.If you really think that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
I'm carrying on. I'm making the case for unity, I'm making the case of what Labour can offer to Britain, of decent… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of… — Warren Mundine Copy Share Image
The nation of 2019, exponentially wealthier, appears to have a fraction of its former self-belief and little faith in its capacity to… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly.… — Alice Rivlin Copy Share Image
My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all… — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as incarceration has come to define the lives of low-income black men, eviction is defining the lives of low-income black women. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to… — Spencer Bachus Copy Share Image
“Today, the majority of poor renting families in America spend over half of their income on housing, and at least one in… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
It's ludicrous that someone can be fired from their job, refused care at a hospital or denied housing because of their sexual… — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies. — Sheldon Richman Copy Share Image
As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with… — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
I think we as a country have definitely got to do better when it comes to housing people of all backgrounds. Not… — CeCe Winans Copy Share Image
We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next… — Kathleen Sebelius Copy Share Image
As we continue to grow and attract new residents, new workforce, we must ensure that everyone has access to safe, affordable, and… — Doug Burgum Copy Share Image
Hundreds of data-mining companies sell landlords tenant-screening reports that list past evictions and court filings. — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
Arguably, the families most at need of housing assistance are systematically denied it because they're stamped with an eviction record. Moms and… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
I met a landlord who will pay you to move at the end of the week and let you use his van.… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image