Housing Quote by Matthew Desmond

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

— Matthew Desmond

The invention of council housing originally offered the poor a way of knowing they were valuable. You had security of tenure.

— Michael Rosen

Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.

— Matthew Desmond

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

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

— Matthew Desmond

I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared…

— Ella Maillart

My approach to housing is to treat it as an essential part of our communities, just like roads, waterlines or any other piece of…

— Kevin Faulconer

I had a rough upbringing. Group homes. Foster homes.

— Frank Shamrock

“Poor neighborhoods provided their residents with quite a lot. In the trailer park, residents met people who knew how to pirate cable, when the…

— Matthew Desmond

“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

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do…

— Narendra Modi

“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