Quotes About Housing

My only requirement was that the house have a basement so we could provide housing for the poor. Kelly

One way for communities to create affordable housing is for local communities to adopt land-use rights. Local governments or community land trusts would provide financing to homebuyers, who would then make land contributions on their properties in perpetuity. As a result, communities would get reimbursed for the goods and services they provide to homeowners, while property buyers would primarily become home buyers not land buyers.

The houses and communities in North Carolina were more upmarket, carefully choreographed versions of the ones I had seen across the Russian Far East. How different, after all, is a look-alike house from a look-alike apartment building?

Rooms and apartments are desperately needed not only because they provide shelter but because they foster human relationships within and around them.

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.

Second, there are two problems with respect to mobile homes in particular. One is we obviously don't want to put them in a flood plain, because if there's another flood, you're going to lose the mobile home.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

Debt leveraging is a major reason why the United States and Britain have lost their industrial advantage. Debt-inflated costs for housing, education and other basic needs have priced their labor out of markets abroad and at home.

In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000.

Against Benioff's suggestion that San Francisco's homeless population is heavily comprised of families with children, the research finds that far more homeless in the San Francisco Bay Area are adults without families than in other parts of the United States. Whereas families make up 32, 53, and 65 percent of the homeless in New York City, Chicago, and Boston, they make up just 9 percent of the Bay Area's homeless population.

Even people who would prefer to live in sober environments say they do not want to quit their addictions. "When we surveyed people in supportive housing in New York," said University of Pennsylvania homelessness researcher Dennis Culhane, "almost everybody wanted their neighbors to be clean and sober but they didn't want rules for themselves about being clean.

a full civil rights bill, something much bigger than ENDA, that encompasses employment, housing, public accommodations, education, and all banking and lending, without a religious exemption any broader than the one in the Civil Rights Act of 1964. We must not settle for anything less.

Tenants living in house call your house their HOME. Tenants living in an apartment usually call it their APARTMENT.

Steering Trying to persuade tenants to go to a certain neighborhood or preventing them from going to a particular neighborhood.

This system could be considered illegal, because if you have more than three rental units, you must rent your unit to the first qualified applicant.

starters, if they are available in your town, try to acquire houses built after 1978 because this will automatically remove you and your business from all of the risks associated with lead-based paint.

And finally, apartments for the most part fit the bill as "short-term temporary housing," just a notch above a hotel or motel. Yes, we can find folks who live in an apartment for years; but most tenants are short-termers and move more frequently than those who take up residence in a house.

this one subject and challenge involves your local landlord-tenant laws.

we charge $25.00 per month additional rent per animal along with a nonrefundable Animal Fee of $100.

Everyone who gets sleepy at night should have a simple decent place to lay their heads, on terms they can afford to pay.

Housing goes hand-in-hand with renting and when I mention the word rent you already know that taxation is involved too.

Housing is a key factor in any society that can't be ignored, if the leader truly cares about the health and mental wellbeing of the population.

Like employment, housing is also politicised too.

Regarding the bill, Nicholas Alahverdian said "The policy of this bill is safety of children at every cost. The aim of this bill is adequate education and housing for children in the care of the state. People may ask at what cost. We say at any cost, for the life of a child in a system with a $600M budget deserves at the very least, food, schooling, and stable shelter, and if possible, a family life. We must never give up, and I certainly won't.