Quotes About Housing

In general, more affordable housing correlates with lower income inequality.

I think Bill de Blasio is doing interesting housing stuff in New York, Rahm Emanuel is doing interesting stuff with the infrastructure bank in Chicago. I want to go to America to meet with and engage with American mayors.

My approach to housing is to treat it as an essential part of our communities, just like roads, waterlines or any other piece of infrastructure.

When I say infrastructure it's not just roads and bridges and subways - it's also housing. It's also schools and fire departments and water departments and sewer departments. That's all infrastructure and it's all important. Little by little this country is crumbling and everyone knows it.

Housing insecurity isn't just an abstract point of policy for me. I've lived it.

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.

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.'

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

Everybody knew there was a housing bubble. You'd f***ing go to a neighbor, "Gee, that house costed $60,000 last year, and now it costs $600,000?! What did they do?!" "Well, they put a gazebo in the back."

Matt and Olivia lived in a declining two-family held together by aluminum siding.

he couldn't see why on earth people lived in that place when they could have a house and a yard for far less down here.

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.

After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions.

If you rent, the rent goes up every year. But if you buy a 30-year mortgage, the cost is fixed.

By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories, which were frequently built with the second story jutting out a foot or two over the first, and sometimes with the attic story still further extending over the second story.

Poor decision making in government; the tragedy of short-term economic thinking; our national housing crisis: these are real 21st Century problems for our country. They are problems that can only be solved by genuinely fearless thinking about our natural environment.

Most of America never noticed, but the 1990s were good times for trailer homes, a.k.a. manufactured housing. From 1991 to 1998, annual sales of manufactured homes more than doubled, to 374,000 from 174,000.

Trailer home borrowers, mostly near the bottom of the economic ladder, often default on their loans.

Whatever your race, colour or creed in London, you still want your children to get on the housing ladder. You still want spaces in hospitals or GP surgeries, you want school places and you want space on the trains in the mornings.

The demand for adequate social housing provision is something that transcends race, religion and settled status.

Together, we're going to transform San Diego into a YIMBY city!

Council house sales defined the new freedoms that transformed this country in the 1980s.

On housing, education and skills, health and social care, transport and economic development, local government is better placed to make decisions in the interests of local communities.

The failure to manage economic migration properly has put further pressure on transport and housing.