Quotes About Housing

The United States spends enough on 'defense' to provide every homeless American with a one-million-dollar home.

Success should be judged on how few people are homeless, not by how much more it costs every year to buy a house.

I just thank God I don't live in a trailer.

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.

In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.

I think thats what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether its education or housing.

People have a right to my food, a right to my housing, and a right to my good job for my decent pay.

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

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.

Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market - contrary to rhetoric.

We are really on track for a soft landing. There are no balloons popping.

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities.

Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures your rights.

As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

With all the challenges in the housing market, it's clear we need a new vision for the way we design our homes, our communities-and even our lives.

Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher than previous peaks in the housing cycle.

At one point in my practice, of the 10 largest home builders in the United States, seven of the 10 were my clients.

We've been in a recession, by any common sense definition, because if you look at the American public, they've got 20 billion - 20 trillion, I should say, worth of residential homes.

Guns alone are not the answer. We must provide hope for young people for better housing, clothing, and food; and if we do, the radicals will wither away