Quotes About Housing

Bharat Nirman was a development programme aimed at stepping up public investment and public-private partnerships in the construction of rural roads, drinking water supply, rural telecommunication, rural housing, and minor irrigation.

I strongly believe supply is the best way to address housing affordability.

Some will say it isn't the government's job to manage who people meet and interact with, but there is clearly a lot it can and should do. It should offer communities much more support to manage demographic and cultural change, including investment in public services and additional housing stock in our migration hotspots.

It is time for us to make a real commitment to our rural communities by expanding broadband, by supporting our farmers, by building affordable housing and taking on rural poverty. That's how we leave no one behind.

Tax increment financing has demonstrated benefits to supporting the type of development projects we need to make housing more affordable for all.

Supporting people to stay in their homes is surely a better method of reducing homelessness than acting after the fact.

I know people who have been without a home for ages, and lots of my friends are sofa surfing because they are in between jobs or saving for degrees and other studies - paying £500 rent every month is just not feasible for them.

Stronger regulation and supervision aimed at problems with underwriting practices and lenders' risk management would have been a more effective and surgical approach to constraining the housing bubble than a general increase in interest rates.

Public housing has two main functions: to meet a need and to punish the needy for having that need. In addition, it must never inspire resentment among those who get their shelter full price.

A house may be large or small; as long as the surrounding houses are equally small it satisfies all social demands for a dwelling. If a palace rises besides the little house, the little house shrinks into a hut.

I'm a big man and I like big dogs.... The dogs kept growing until only one of us could get in the elevator. It caused enough hassles so they finally kicked me out of my apartment.

In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.

I think husbands and wives should live in separate houses. If there's enough money, the children should live in a third.

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

By the way, food and rent aren't the only things around here that cost money. You sleep on the couch.

People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.

Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, gee, I hope it does collapse because then I can go in and buy some and make some money. Well, it did collapse.

A lot of ppl are making more money than they ever had nowadays - so when they get their flat they can, they always find themselves with an extra room.

12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.

My grandfather used to say 'It is my house I am paying the bills', my dad used to say 'this is my house I pay the mortgage', my generation is saying this is my house I pay the rent.

In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing bubble, the war, and - very much in third place - tax cuts.

HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence.

These bills include hundreds of thousands of economic migrants who, after years in the UK, probably still can't believe that British taxpayers are stupid enough to give them free housing, free education, free healthcare and £20,000 or £30,000 or even £40,000 a year for producing ever more children without ever having to do a day's work.

if we have the means to build them, why shouldn't they? Are there families who don't "deserve" houses?)