Quotes About Housing

When you look at the wealth gap - the racial wealth gap - all of that is very much connected to housing.

Even six months later, they have not figured out how do we help the people from the area get housing.

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.

The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

If we allow more development, it will bring housing affordability.

I'm hoping there'll be, if not a boom, then a big pick-up in housing because if that happens, then it will employ a lot of people, and the domino effect will go through the community, and it will help everyone.

I have been looking at a number of things in affordable housing because I do know that the price of housing has gone up a lot.

The church should lead on issues of housing and affordability.

We're willing to spend countless dollars putting people who need help in cages, and then when they get out we say you can't have a job, and you can't have housing, and because you don't have either, we're going to take your kids, too.

Gentrification and housing shortages are complex issues.

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

At 16, I got housing benefit, and I had my own flat in an old woman's house. I was the only 16-year-old I knew living alone.

I'd hate to see new housing building accelerating while taking down buildings where there's 50 people living in rent-stabilized apartments.

Employers are as sensitive to housing costs as their employees, which is why, when we build more houses, we create more jobs.

I was on subsidized housing for many years before my financial situation changed. I quickly found myself in a new economic structure and, frankly, knew little about how to handle my money.

We can't keep limiting ourselves when it comes to housing. Affordable housing and teacher housing are too crucial to let the failed policies of the past get in the way.

I have the ability and the will to lead San Francisco in building more housing. Without it, people like me who grew up in San Francisco, and people who came here for the values we embrace will simply not be able to stay.

I am very open to looking at potential tax changes to improve housing affordability.

I think the American people, through the healthy exchange of ideas, understood that they could do better as a country, in terms of healthcare, affordable education, affordable housing.

Housing is a human right, not a bargaining chip to let fall between bureaucratic cracks.

Cities need to act aggressively to hit their housing goals - that's what I'm doing. But I think you want to ensure that you have local control, so you're designing the housing that best fits your needs.

Since Mia, my eldest, was born, we've been through the gamut of shelters, transitional housing and even living in a camper in a driveway.