Acts of charity Quote by Martin Filler

“Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the…

— Jordan Flaherty

“public housing was mostly for working- and lower-middle-class white families. It was not heavily subsidized, and tenants paid the full cost of operations with…

— Richard Rothstein

Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.

— Matthew Desmond

If shelter is a human right, why not create a national housing service to provide homes for everyone who doesn't have one?

— Dawn Foster

There are many people who will say housing is a human right, and yet it oftentimes seems as if it is relegated simply to…

— Zohran Mamdani

“In an affluent society there ought to be an income floor under every man below which society will not allow him to go –…

— Pierre Berton

“The Truly Disadvantaged, the most important book written about poverty in the past three decades. It was Wilson who first observed, famously, that a…

— Kathryn Edin

Homelessness is not only about helping our neighbors who face the greatest housing challenges, but also about the well-being and economic security of our…

— Phil Scott

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of…

— Anonymous

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

— Martin Adams

There is plenty of housing - for the rich. But a series of outrageous policies ensure that it remains inaccessible to the poor.

— George Monbiot

“Housing projects are a great metaphor for the government's relationship to poor folks: these huge islands built mostly in the middle of nowhere, designed…

— Jay-Z