Quotes About Housing

That is - the reason for that is that home prices are only going to go up. Now, they've never gone down nationwide in our - since we've been keeping track of this.

What happened in 2008 stopped people in their tracks. People stopped looking at their homes simply as commodities to exploit and starting thinking about how they might personalise that space and make them less bland and more autobiographical, and that's healthy, I think.

The glue that kept the consumer market together the last few years was the wealth effect from the housing boom.

Our concepts or ideas form the mental housing in which we live. We may end up proud of the structures we have built. Or we may believe that they need dismantling and starting afresh. But first, we have to know what they are.

An offering of New Housing issues in July 1971 yielded as high as 5.8%, free from both Federal and state taxes, while an issue of (taxable) New Community debentures sold in September

If we had created rules to automatically turn up the required down payment on a home when there's a housing bubble, or just say that the mortgage on a property cannot be larger than the value of the property three years ago, the amount of human misery that would've been avoided would've been enormous.

Millions of Americans were duped by the federal government and the Federal Reserve into buying homes they could not afford and failed to count the cost. When the financial crisis of 2008 hit, they could not keep up the monthly mortgage payments and defaulted.

Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.

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

People across metro Detroit face discrimination every day in housing, employment, insurance - the list goes on. It might not always be explicit and in your face, but my residents know when they're being mistreated.

Going in and out of a proverbial 'poor door' - a separate entrance for income-restricted residents of mixed-income housing - of your city every day has its costs, even if the 'poor door' woman would be considered affluent in another location.

Let's be clear about this, and let's be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison.

It's true that eviction affects the young and the old, the sick and the able-bodied. It affects white folks and black folks and Hispanic folks and immigrants. If you spend time in housing court, you see a really diverse array of folks there.

Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities.

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.

The way we need to view aid is as a fulfillment of rights, and Mexico, as other countries around the world, have agreed and signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the covenants of Human Rights and that includes the right to food, the right to water, the right to housing and the right to education.

Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.

Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent.

Foreclosures are a significant problem; they're an economic problem.

Some environmentalists already are proponents of urban compactness. Sierra Club's magazine reports that in Vancouver, "Mayor Sam Sullivan's EcoDensity program includes zoning changes to allow 'secondary suites,' or in-law apartments; triplexes; and narrow streets with houses that abut property lines." Peter Calthorpe's "walkability" has become a real estate selling point, with walkable neighborhoods able to charge premium prices.

Transformar las villas y a los villeros en un tema cultural es ocultar que se trata esencialmente de un problema económico que no tiene otra solución que no sea económica: en primer lugar encontrar solución a la crisis de vivienda y al desempleo crónico.

La ayuda a los pobres no consiste en exaltar la pobreza como un mérito sino en combatirla, y esto solo se consigue con posibilidades de trabajo, educación, vivienda, salud, control de la natalidad, integración plena a la sociedad.

She turned the pot three times, and leaving the tea to brew fetched the biscuit time housing the scones, together with side plates and some butter and jam.

When you feel house poor, you don't buy anything. Housing immediately impacts the job numbers because there are so many housing-related jobs within the industry, and in adjacent industries.