Los angeles Quote by Matthew Desmond

“A universal housing voucher program would carve a middle path between the landlord’s desire to make a living and the tenant’s desire, simply, to…

— Matthew Desmond

“A problem as big as the affordable-housing crisis calls for a big solution. It should be at the top of America's domestic-policy agenda -…

— Matthew Desmond

Housing vouchers are a vital lifeline for many people I know in New Orleans and around the country, including struggling artists.

— Big Freedia

If you're a progressive, you believe every American deserves safe, decent, and affordable housing, and there's no institution in American life more dedicated to…

— Ritchie Torres

We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital…

— Matthew Desmond

Whether it's public housing, or project based Section 8, or mandatory inclusionary housing, or rent regulated housing, there should be a national strategy for…

— Ritchie Torres

Families, when they get a housing voucher, they move a lot less. They move into better neighborhoods. Their kids go to the same school…

— 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

We have to create and preserve enough affordable housing to meet the demand, because the affordability crisis is imposing a hardship on millions of…

— Ritchie Torres

We need a government policy all-out in favor of more, denser housing.

— Glenn Kelman

“Affordable housing is a human-capital investment, just like job programs or education, one that would strengthen and steady the American workforce.”

— Matthew Desmond

“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