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Quotes About Housing

On average, you will pay less for a home on a Monday than you will on a Saturday and a Sunday.
~ Scott McGillivray
The thing I've learned most about poverty is how expensive it is to be poor. It's super easy to pay rent every month if you earn enough to pay rent and have a decent job. It's super hard to pay rent if you need a coupon from the state and then need to go find an apartment that will accept that coupon and only that coupon.
~ Nick Hanauer
How stupid is it of us to ask those who brought us "affordable" housing to now turn their attention to bringing us "affordable" health care?
~ Walter E. Williams
Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldnt be our countrys primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition.
~ Warren Edward Buffett
Today, young men between twenty-five and thirty-one are 66 percent more likely than their female counterparts to be living with their parents.
~ Warren Farrell PhD
Its crime-ridden public housing estates—in France they were known as HLMs, or habitation à loyer modéré—were
~ Daniel Silva
idea that government should be used to help those who needed help—the poor, the undereducated, the ill-housed, the elderly, the sick.
~ Doris Kearns Goodwin
We had a bubble in housing.
~ Alan Greenspan
My first show at MoMA in New York was pictures of new developments along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains. They were housing developments that were brutal in many ways, that cared almost not a thing for the human beings inside. They were just designed to make money.
~ Robert Adams
I grew up in a commissioned house in the next suburb over, Mount Abbot. It was a two-bedroom house with me, my brother, and my two sisters. Mum and Dad slept in the lounge, and we didn't have wallpaper.
~ Sonny Bill Williams
I definitely wanna open up some assisted-living facilities around my city.
~ Megan Thee Stallion
The billionaire founder of investment firm Elliott Management was one of several investors who warned financial ministers in 2007 that a crack in the housing market could cause huge problems for the banking industry.
~ Kelly Evans
For my very first movie, 'Roger and Me,' I made it as part of my deal with Warner Brothers that the four people that were evicted in that film, that Warner Brothers would house - would pay their mortgage or their rent for the next two years to give them a chance to get on their feet.
~ Michael Moore
In my 20s, I was a freelance writer with little money and living in a rabbit warren one-and-a-half-bedroom with a roommate.
~ Alissa Quart
More Americans own their home than ever before. Nearly 70 percent of American's are homeowners. So it is a good time for us to asses the positive impacts of homeownership on families, communities and on the nation's economy.
~ Randy Neugebauer
Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.
~ Randy Neugebauer
We want to help Canadians be able to get a home that they can afford.
~ Jagmeet Singh
Most cities don't have a just cause eviction law. Most allow no cause evictions, as well as evictions for nonpayment.
~ Matthew Desmond
When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes the expectation. People learn to become better criminals in jail and prison.
~ Carl Hart
I think housing is not a simple commodity because we are so in short supply of land. So the government has a role to play in providing housing - decent housing and affordable housing - for the people of Hong Kong.
~ Carrie Lam
Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.
~ Al-Waleed bin Talal
A home is a home, and excess supply leads to prices falling.
~ Nouriel Roubini
Local authorities face huge housing issues with demands outstripping supply many times over; the only way those in housing need can be housed is in the private sector.
~ Jeremy Corbyn
I do know that homelessness is related to housing, and we haven't been producing housing in the numbers that our community requires - a lot of the escalating costs of housing is related to the fact that supply is way short than demand.
~ David Ige