African Quote by Loretta Lynch

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

— Carolyn McCarthy

Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind…

— Ed Smith

The pathway to housing should be fair and equitable for everyone, and access to affordable housing is the infrastructure people in our communities need…

— Raphael Warnock

While it's absolutely important that we build housing for our low-income residents, when we are talking about opening up hundreds of sites for housing,…

— London Breed

“For the first time in the history of America, New Deal policies made homeownership a real possibility for white families, but black families were…

— Matthew Desmond

“There’s only one way America’s neighborhoods will begin to integrate: people have to want it more than vested public and corporate interests are opposed…

— Tanner Colby

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

— Ash Sarkar

Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping folks who…

— Barack Obama

“Some families evicted from the Flats settled in a segregated development, also created by the federal government, that later opened on the west side.…

— Richard Rothstein

“and Medicaid, which would help expand coverage and bring down costs. The other thing we should be honest about is how hard it’s going…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Black college-educated people got to where they are on the backs of domestic help, meaning their parents and grandparents. So people should not forget…

— Esther Rolle

The establishment has learned how to co-opt identity politics to put the brakes on economic progress and justice. So I would say if you…

— Jimmy Dore