Affordable housing Quote by Matthew Desmond

We must invest in affordable housing, quality education, safe parks and green space, good paying jobs, comprehensive mental health and trauma services, and other…

— Cori Bush

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

— 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

“A universal voucher program is but one potential policy recommendation. Let others come. Establishing the basic right to housing in America could be realized…

— 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

The Trump administration, to its credit, has initiatives on housing. It has initiatives on child care. It does not have true initiatives in terms…

— Annie Lowrey

While it won't solve all the world's ills - and ideas such as a rent cap and more social housing are necessary in places…

— Rutger Bregman

Government has to produce affordable housing. Government has to produce answers.

— Alexandra C. Pelosi

“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

We can build wealth in all our communities, value public education, plan for our neighborhoods, invest in housing we can afford and transportation that…

— Michelle Wu

Place-based initiatives can provide a useful framework to judge our progress in raising people out of poverty. They allow us to see whether or…

— Henry Cisneros

“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