Housing Quotes · Page 9

There's no question we need more housing, and we have to fight for that throughout California.

— Eric Garcetti

The failure to manage economic migration properly has put further pressure on transport and housing.

— Dominic Grieve

I will fight for affordable housing for teachers, police, fire fighters, and families in all our neighborhoods.

— London Breed

I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.

— George W. Bush

A stable and affordable home is fundamental to economic security.

— Michael Bennet

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords.

— Nydia Velazquez

I'm going to rely upon the advice of affordable housing experts to make sure we meet the public's expectations.

— Ted Wheeler

And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.

— Franklin Raines

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in…

— Eric Cantor

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

I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due…

— Jack Layton

Increases in stabilized rents impact rent stabilized tenants directly, but they also affect the affordability of all New Yorkers' rents.

— Letitia James

Any one of us could fall on hard times. Work and housing have the potential to be unstable, especially for those earning…

— Layla Moran

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as…

— Sonia Sotomayor

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

— Cory Booker

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 certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get…

— Foster Friess

I'm somebody who, as a child, had a lot of insecurity about stable housing, where I was going to be living, if…

— Jewel

We need a Green New Deal for Public Housing, as my colleague and friend Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez has proposed. We need a Green…

— Jamaal Bowman

When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why…

— Milton Friedman

Without the ability to plant roots and invest in your community or your school - because you're paying 60, 70, 80 percent…

— Matthew Desmond

In a speech earlier today President Bush said if Iraq gets rid of Saddam Hussein, he will help the Iraqi people with…

— Jay Leno

“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

Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care,…

— Ai-jen Poo

“Brownsville has a greater concentration of public housing projects than anywhere in the United States.”

— Kay S. Hymowitz

The glue that kept the consumer market together the last few years was the wealth effect from the housing boom.

— Joel C. Rosenberg

My policy is no stone throwing regardless of housing situation.

— Demetri Martin

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

You can get out of maintaining property at code if the family is behind on rent.

— Matthew Desmond

We need to reform our land use policies to build more housing in urban centers and near transit.

— London Breed

If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.

— Matthew Desmond

At seventeen I made seventeen thousand living in public housing.

— Nas

I grew up in a public housing development right across the street from Trump Golf Course.

— Ritchie Torres

When you look at the wealth gap - the racial wealth gap - all of that is very much connected to housing.

— Raphael Warnock

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

— Kenny Troutt

The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.

— Nicola Sturgeon

We have got to build more affordable homes in the south of England, we've just got to.

— James Cleverly

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

— Matthew Desmond

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

I bought a house right before the housing crisis happened. So I paid too much and then I was stuck with it…

— Hamish Linklater