National Quote by Ritchie Torres

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

— Glenn Kelman

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

“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

Low income persons in need of social housing should be housed in more prosperous areas to avoid placing an extra burden on the poorer…

— Najat Vallaud-Belkacem

“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

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

— Ash Sarkar

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

— Carolyn McCarthy

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 want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness.

— Millard Fuller

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

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

— Matthew Desmond

we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary…

— Barbara Ehrenreich