Quotes About Public Housing

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

Richard Baker

#2. In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jan Schakowsky

#3. Taxation for public housing destroys as many jobs in other lines as it creates in housing.

Henry Hazlitt

#4. Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

Marc Lamont Hill

#5. My - I grew up in - I grew up in public housing. My dad, for most of my life, worked for the post office, which was a terrific job to get because you couldn't lose your job.

Lloyd Blankfein

#6. Most poor people in America were like Arleen: they did not live in public housing or apartments subsidized by vouchers. Three in four families who qualified for assistance received nothing.

Matthew Desmond

#7. We have a responsibility to protect public housing residents from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke, especially the elderly and children who suffer from asthma and other respiratory diseases.

Julian Castro

#8. In addition to public housing, South Williamsburg is home to shabby artists' lofts like mine, apartments of Hasidic Jews, and one extremely tall, high-priced condo.

Jami Attenberg

#9. I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord.

Cory Booker

#10. I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.

Rick Scott

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

Carolyn McCarthy

#12. I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

Sonia Sotomayor

#13. The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are far below the benefits of AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, public defenders, leisure time and all the other goods and services of the welfare state.

George Gilder

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Gregory Meeks

#18. 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

#19. I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

William J. Clinton

#20. Families who live in public housing on the South Side of Chicago are not poor because Bill Gates lives in a big house.

Charles Wheelan

#21. What happens once you get a felony conviction? Now you are entering this American caste system where you can't get a job, you can't get a loan, you can't get a Pell grant, you can't get public housing.

Cory Booker

#22. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps

William J. Clinton

#23. Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

John Hume

#24. When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - look decrepit within a year or two of their construction ...

Milton Friedman

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

Bayard Rustin

#28. Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.

Jordan Flaherty

#29. I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.'

Frances O'Grady

#30. For all Trump's criticisms of government, his family wealth came from feeding at the government trough. His father, Fred Trump, leveraged government housing programs into a construction business; the empire was founded on public money.

Nicholas Kristof

#31. Communities need to feel that they can accommodate people. Rather than feeling that it's not possible to integrate and that the stress and strain on housing and public services is too great.

Theresa May