Quotes About Housing

#1. We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

Gavin Newsom

#2. In certain states, if a woman makes $12,000 a year, and lives with her quarter-of-a million dollar boyfriend and they don't get married, as long as they don't get married, she gets maybe 20 or 30 thousand dollars in pre-tax benefits in terms of food stamps, health care and housing allowance.

Foster Friess

#3. Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa.

Thomas Vilsack

#4. it is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need. Decent, affordable housing should be a basic right for everybody in this country. The reason is simple: without stable shelter, everything else falls apart.

Matthew Desmond

#5. I've introduced eight bills to fight for support for our small businesses and ensure we get funding to rebuild public housing - among other things.

Cedric Richmond

#6. We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, butGod did.

Richard Baker

#7. Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher than previous peaks in the housing cycle.

David Lereah

#8. Housing programs designed to help young families and senior citizens purchase homes should be available to people of all races, including African Americans.

Loretta Lynch

#9. As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.

Vito Fossella

#10. If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker.

Jamie Dimon

#11. For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

Nydia Velazquez

#12. Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.

Robert Kiyosaki

#13. If indeed we can create systems that allow individuals to access goods and services like health and housing and energy and water, in a way that they can afford, they'll all have greater choice, greater opportunity, greater dignity.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#14. Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?

Thomas Sowell

#15. If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, we're not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.

Tim Wise

#16. Even climate action at home looks suspiciously like socialism to them; all the calls for high-density affordable housing and brand-new public transit are obviously just ways to give backdoor subsidies to the undeserving poor.

Naomi Klein

#17. The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

Jonathan Kozol

#18. Kyubey: Why do you humans place so much value on housing your souls inside your bodies? It's a complete mystery to me.

Magica Quartet

#19. We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty. Not everyone living in a distressed neighborhood is associated with gang members, parole officers, employers, social workers, or pastors. But nearly all of them have a landlord.

Matthew Desmond

#20. South Central Los Angeles, for example, is a data and media black hole, without local cable programming or links to major data systems. Just as it became a housing-and-jobs ghetto in the postwar period, it is now evolving into an off-net electronic ghetto.

Mike Davis

#21. When I was a child, I was living in the housing projects of Philadelphia. I didn't even have a Christmas tree.

Bill Cosby

#22. I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

Coretta Scott King

#23. The end of the communist period, the housing policy changing and its related ideological

Anonymous

#24. People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

P. J. O'Rourke

#25. As an actor I worked for seven years with a community theater company based in London. We used improvisation techniques to take stories to young people who wouldn't normally have access to them - in prisons, hospitals, young offender's units, youth clubs and housing estates.

Jenny Downham

#26. As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options.

Gavin Newsom

#27. Great. I was housing with the Extreme Morning Militants. What a joy.

Gini Koch

#28. We are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#29. In the typical economic recovery, a resurgent housing sector helps fuel reemployment and rising incomes.

Ben Bernanke

#30. When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans.

Randy Neugebauer

#31. In Chicago and across the country, whites looking to achieve the American dream could rely on a legitimate credit system backed by the government. Blacks were herded into the sights of unscrupulous lenders who took them for money and for sport.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#32. One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.

Janet Yellen

#33. As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there.

Henry Cisneros

#34. A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. ... I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.

William Powell

#35. I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance.

Thomas Menino

#36. Hatred doesn't just hurt the people being hated, it hurts the people housing the hatred

Aja Monet

#37. I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have played their part which have fountains and statues and grass and trees, which are as important to the concept of the home as the roof itself.

John F. Kennedy

#38. Council housing, once the cherished centrepiece of Bevanite socialism, took just twenty years for successive governments to pick apart.

Lynsey Hanley

#39. People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

Eric Cantor

#40. I remember sitting down with my parents and telling them that I was going to put off college to study acting. I had already paid money to the college and gotten housing. I walked around the campus and it just didn't feel right.

Kelly Blatz

#41. I typically shoot underwater with my regular camera in an underwater housing, and then I usually have two big strobes that I use to light. But with whales, you're not going to be able to really light a 45-foot subject. Your strobes are only effective for maybe five or six feet underwater.

Brian Skerry

#42. The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.

Alice Rivlin

#43. Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.

Bill Ackman

#44. I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.

George W. Bush

#45. Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I was chairman of an organization called 'FM Policy Focus.' What we were saying was, if there was blip in the housing market, Fannie and Freddie would destabilize the greatest economy in the world.

J. C. Watts

#46. Through the windshield I
saw the mark of these
ghettos - the abundance of
beauty shops, churches,
liquor stores, and
crumbling housing - and I
felt the old fear. Through
the windshield I saw the
rain coming down in
sheets.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#47. For more than 40 years, I have advocated the creation of a 'round the clock' community. This would mean, at the least, housing, schools and shops of various kinds alongside the commercial buildings. That kind of community had appeared in lower Manhattan in nascent form before Sept. 11, 2001.

David Rockefeller

#48. We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.

John Prescott

#49. I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.

Gregory Meeks

#50. Housing projects can seem like labyrinths to outsiders, as complicated and intimidating as a Moroccan bazaar. But we knew our way around.

Jay-Z

#51. Government studies show that there are still more than two million race-based housing discrimination crimes every year.8

Paula Harris

#52. There's a saying that goes, 'People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.' OK. How about, 'Nobody should throw stones'? That's crappy behavior. My policy is, 'No stone throwing regardless of housing situation.

Demetri Martin

#53. Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

Jewel

#54. I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of the year. I gave up on my place in New York. I don't have a place in L.A., but sometimes when I go there for the hiatus, I stay in temporary housing. It's all over the place, and I don't know where I live!

Brooke Elliott

#55. We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.

Duane Chapman

#56. Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

Marian Wright Edelman

#57. Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.

Teju Cole

#58. Increasing access to federal student loans has been a bipartisan effort in Washington, one that I have supported. But it has created what many experts believe is a bubble in higher education, not unlike the housing bubble that preceded the financial crisis.

Marco Rubio

#59. Which means that you stand a greater chance of dying while dealing crack in a Chicago housing project than you do while sitting on death row in Texas.

Anonymous

#60. There shouldn't be two Indias; we need affordable housing. There are projections that by 2017, 18.78 million will be the number of those living in slums.

Girija Vyas

#61. Bubbles have quite a few things in common, but housing bubbles have a spectacular thing in common, and that is every one of them is considered unique and different.

Jeremy Grantham

#62. Over the years, the technology of trade has changed in response to advances in the ability to communicate. From its origins on the streets of Chicago, the Board of Trade moved to a building housing 'trading pits' for the open-outcry exchange by brokers representing buyers and sellers.

Dale T. Mortensen

#63. Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care, so many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we've got a lot of work to do.

Ai-jen Poo

#64. The key to house prices is the share of foreclosure or short sales in the total housing market. When that share rises, house prices will fall, because distressed properties sell for significantly less - currently around 25 percent below non-distressed houses.

Mark Zandi

#65. Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.

Joseph Pilates

#66. Guns alone are not the answer. We must provide hope for young people for better housing, clothing, and food; and if we do, the radicals will wither away

Ramon Magsaysay

#67. I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

Al Lewis

#68. I think mobile homes are a blight on the planet. Attractive, affordable housing is possible, and I'm out to prove it.

Dan Phillips

#69. This was not just any urn. It was a cremation urn, housing the powdered remains of Mrs. Pule's mother Wanda, a woman so mean and nasty that she had it put in writing that upon her death she wished to be cremated and have her ashes scattered over people who had annoyed her.

Gerry Swallow

#70. I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever!

Thomas Menino

#71. With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.

Sarah Susanka

#72. I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.

Alphonso Jackson

#73. Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.

Jeremy Corbyn

#74. The new building housing the store. The

Kristen Proby

#75. The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.

Alphonso Jackson

#76. A: 10% savings 10% donation 35% housing and living expenses 25% food 5% entertainment 6-10% retirement (more if you're older) 3-5% college fund for children

Celso Cukierkorn

#77. Although not well known outside Wall Street, Freddie Mac and its corporate cousin, Fannie Mae, are two of the world's largest financial institutions and play a crucial role in the housing market.

Alex Berenson

#78. In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

John Major

#79. In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the war, and - very much in third place - tax cuts.

Paul Krugman

#80. Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class - involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing - are not sustainable.

Maurice Strong

#81. Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

Hillary Clinton

#82. The International Declaration of Human Rights says the right to housing, health, education should be guaranteed to everyone. The moment these things are provided, we will have a different world order and nuclear weapons will become less of a threat.

Bernard Lown

#83. If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka .

Christopher Hitchens

#84. We lived in a housing project graced by the architectural style of Early Chicken Coop ...

Clara Fraser

#85. If you see a homeless person on the street, and they need food, housing, medical attention - if you can give that, do it. But at the same time, work with tonglen, because that is how you start dissolving the barrier between you and them.

Pema Chodron

#86. We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people's lives and help them achieve the American dream.

Julian Castro

#87. Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail.

Carl Guardino

#88. The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.

Will Cuppy

#89. Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.

Ben Bernanke

#90. I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property.

Margaret Thatcher

#91. There are only two markets, ultraluxury and subsidized housing.

Rafael Vinoly

#92. Housing affects everything, and we continue to live in very, very segregated communities.

Melissa Harris-Perry

#93. Because all this stuff about military targets is absolute rubbish. There's no point in bombing German factories, because they just rebuild them. So we're targeting large areas of dense working-class housing. They can't replace the workers so fast.

Ken Follett

#94. Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

Win Butler

#95. Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction.

Joshua A. Tucker

#96. The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.

Nicola Sturgeon

#97. The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.

Ben Bernanke

#98. So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing.

Alphonso Jackson

#99. I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.

Emma Donoghue

#100. Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonpolluting, ubiquitous energy. Building this better world is humanity's grandest challenge,

Peter Diamandis