Housing Quotes

• You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

  Jello Biafra

  Football, Golf, People

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• What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Fighting, Expression, Taverns

  Gwendolyn Brooks, Gloria Jean Wade Gayles (2003). “Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.107, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Causes, Homelessness

  Jonathan Kozol (2011). “Rachel and Her Children: Homeless Families in America”, p.14, Broadway Books

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• The early feminists were pro-life. And really, abortion is a huge disservice to women, and it hasn't been presented that way. As Feminists for Life-what we're trying to do is support women, and so what we want to do is-reach women on campus-college campuses so that, when they get pregnant, they can find housing. They can find money they need to stay in school.

  Patricia Heaton

  School, College, Pro Life

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• What Habitat does is much more than just sheltering people. It’s what it does for people on the inside. It’s that intangible quality of hope. Many people without decent housing consider themselves life’s losers. This is the first victory they may have ever had. And it changes them. We see Habitat homeowners go back to school and get their GEDs, enter college, do all kinds of things they never believed they could do before they moved into their house. By their own initiative, through their own pride and hope, they change.

  Millard Fuller

  School, Pride, College

  Millard Fuller (1995). “Simple Decent Place to Live: The Building Realization of Habitat for Humanity”, p.19, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul.

  Phillip Moffitt

  Yoga, Inspiration, Home

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• Housing, it's not a plaything. It's not something that you can just play around with. It is, I believe, the rubric of family. It is the glue for a healthy community. And to have someone that really wants to dismantle any government involvement in making sure that every community has access to that is very scary. We should be worried.

  Jumaane Williams

  Believe, Government, Play

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies.

  Sheldon Richman

  Government, Financial, Absence

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• Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa.

  Tom Vilsack

  Strong, Keys, Iowa

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• Its unfair to have cities where parking is free for cars and housing is expensive for people.

  Donald Shoup

  Cities, People, Car

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• One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.

  Janet Yellen

  Judging, Ratios, Way

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• Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.

  Carolyn McCarthy

  Opportunity, Homeless, Program

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• If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Jobs, Believe, School

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• I think we as a country have definitely got to do better when it comes to housing people of all backgrounds. Not only can the less fortunate afford housing but fewer people of all kinds can afford it.

  CeCe Winans

  Country, Thinking, People

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• If, in all the cities, every house that is past repairing could be pulled down or burned up, how great would be the crash, how heaven-high the conflagration. It would be a veritable crack of Doom and glare of the Judgment.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Past, Cities, House

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• A decline in the national housing price level would need to be substantial to trigger a significant rise in foreclosures, because the vast majority of homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes despite large mortgage-market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.

  Alan Greenspan

  Home, Years, Levels

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• We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

  Alvar Aalto

  Cities, Architecture, Problem

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• In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.

  John Hume

  Fashion, Class, House

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• If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips.

  Jane Byrne

  Community, Rehabilitation, Succeed

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• A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.

  William Baldwin

  Strong, Real, Affordable Housing

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• You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest, boldest recovery package in history, right; the stimulus package, biggest ever; the financial rescue, absolutely comprehensive; a housing plan - that is incredible medicine for the economy. And we fully expect it to work.

  Christina Romer

  Recovery, Thinking, Medicine

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• I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance.

  Thomas Menino

  Cities, Employee, Committed

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• If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes that we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say that I'm a "Liberal."

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Believe, School

  John F. Kennedy's Address upon Accepting the Liberal Party Nomination for President, New York, New York, www.jfklibrary.org. September 14, 1960.

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• The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Moving, Agency, Perspective

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• We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.

  Gavin Newsom

  Character, Quality, Development

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