Quotes About Housing

I want to take Negroes out of the ghetto and put them in good neighborhoods in good houses.

The face of the eviction epidemic is moms and kids, especially poor moms from predominantly Latino and African American neighborhoods.

I will fight for affordable housing for teachers, police, fire fighters, and families in all our neighborhoods.

It is past time for the federal government to establish an Unhoused Bill of Rights and make the desperately needed investments to guarantee housing, health care, and a robust social safety net for our unhoused neighbors.

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.

Trump revealed his powerful secret to conquering financial adversity once, in a meeting to promote another one of his signature, view-eating housing developments: "You know," he said, "what New York really needs—besides this project—is to reduce its debt. And let me tell you—this is something I know—it's easy! You just don't pay!" America

People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.

Not everybody likes bunnies and trees, but everybody likes executive housing complexes.

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In the final analysis, poverty means death: lack of food and housing, the inability to attend properly to health and education needs, the exploitation of workers, permanent unemployment, the lack of respect for one's human dignity, and unjust limitations placed on personal freedom in the areas of self-expression, politics, and religion.

signed into law in 1955 as the Limited-Profit Housing Companies Act.

Public-sector union organisers have told me about how firefighters, police officers, and nurses can no longer afford to live in the cities they serve and protect.

Bubbles have quite a few things in common, but housing bubbles have a spectacular thing in common, and that is every one of them is considered unique and different.

This is kind of a uniquely New York experience, but when you can't afford an apartment nicer than the place you're renting, there's something so inherently depressing about it.

Cities around the United States do not have land use planning like we have in Oregon, and they are all struggling with issues like affordable housing.

Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.

You want to really prevent the construction of units? Pass rent control.

The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a whole lot more. In Los Angeles, your average starter home is a million dollars. So I need more money in Los Angeles to live like a normal person. If I live in another city, Iowa maybe, I wouldn't need as much.

Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005.

National data on evictions aren't collected, although national data on foreclosures are. And so if anyone wants to, kind of, get to know any statistical research about evictions, they have to really dig in the annals of legal records.