Quotes About Housing

There's no agents or managers to represent them. Dancers don't have any voice. They have nothing. Nobody can afford a flat to live in. They have to share to be able to survive. In a place like the Royal Ballet, that shouldn't happen.

The government can build physical infrastructure in the form of housing for the poorest of the poor, and availability of energy, toilets and water in every home.

If we continue to tolerate this level of poverty in our cities, and go along with eviction as commonplace in poor neighborhoods, it's not for a lack of resources. It will be a lack of something else.

obvious reason: giving people extra money to buy a home just filters through the market and makes them all more expensive. The real winners of the first home buyer policies are people who already own

...housing activity will remain healthy for some time to come.

Jobs are harder and costlier to create than voting rolls. The eradication of slums housing millions is complex far beyond integrating buses and lunch counters.

Assisted living most often became a mere layover on the way from independent living to a nursing home.

I think it's a worthy undertaking--to provide a decent apartment for a man who earns fifteen dollars a week. But not at the expense of other men. Not if it raises the taxes, raises all the other rents and makes the man who earns forty live in a rat hole.

For seven rooms with two baths and three fireplaces, a typical price was $45,000. Lauren Bacall's fourth-floor spread facing the Park was priced at $53,340. The smallest flats—one-bedroom, one-bath, nonhousekeeping units that had been guest rooms on the second floor—were priced at $4,410.

Housing costs are also squeezing middle- and lower-income families. For the poorest third of households, housing expenses have increased more than 50 percent since the mid-1990s and for the middle third, about 25 percent.

The oldest current College Program Housing, Vista Way Apartments didn't come into use until 1987.

annual increases in your rent is 4 percent per year.

Who is secure in all his basic needs? Who has work, spiritual care, medical care, housing, food, occasional entertainment, free clothing, free burial, free everything? The answer might be nuns and monks, but the standard reply is 'prisoners'.

Historians estimate that up to half of nineteenth-century city residents were either boarding or maintaining a boardinghouse.2 Single

Even in the 1980s your average young archaeologist would have had difficulty raising capital for a house. I knew this because it's one of the things archaeologists will tell you about, at length, at the slightest provocation.

Because who is more oppressed," exclaimed Leslie. "Those that seek nothing but entitlements for themselves or those that claim for everything, social security, housing benefit, disability and pay for nothing." One

and special interests, such as the banking and housing lobbies, have routinely blocked attempts to rationalize and improve the existing system.

The housing collapse and credit problems could feed on each other and fuel a more general downturn

We saw the cooldown in housing as mostly good news.

Moreover, the nation's banks seemed ready to withstand any spillover from housing.

Relative to the enormous size of the mortgage market, the number seemed small to me.

A quarter of homeowners would owe more on their mortgages than their homes were worth.

which would lead to further weakening in housing,

foreclosed homes rarely resell for good prices,