Housing Quotes - Page 15

• I don't think that it's appropriate for the government to say, in effect, we're going to slow
  down the growth of housing or that we're going to slow down the extension of the highway and the freeway system.

  George Deukmejian

  Thinking, Government, Growth

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• There does need to be a speed-up of the process.It takes entirely too long to addres5 some of those concerns and, in the process, it becomes so extremely expensive and cumbersome that it tends to turn away those people and companies that want to provide much needed housing.

  George Deukmejian

  Long, People, Doe

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• The lower interest rates fueled housing and consumption booms in countries such as Spain and Ireland. At the same time, Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, tightened its belt and became more competitive. All this led to a wide divergence in economic performance. Europe became divided into creditor and debtor countries.

  George Soros

  Country, Struggle, Europe

  "George Soros on the Euro Crisis". Interview with Der Spiegel, www.georgesoros.com. June 26, 2012.

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• If you like what Wall Street did for the housing market, you'll love what Wall Street is doing for commodities. Goldman's ability to influence any portion of the price for a key component of the industrial economy is simply unacceptable.

  Carl Levin

  Love, Wall, Keys

  Carl Levin's opening statement before U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on Wall Street Bank Involvement With Physical Commodities at Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C., www.hsgac.senate.gov. November 20, 2014.

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• If you look at what's happened to the stock market, if you look at what's happened to housing values, if you look at what's happened to bank loan portfolios because the value of their other assets that they've already issued loans against were going down, there was a pretty good argument for trying to pass something at about this level of investment with the divisions as they were - unemployment, food stamps, and tax cuts, aid to education and healthcare, and job creation.

  William J. Clinton

  Jobs, Cutting, Trying

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Ive introduced eight bills to fight for support for our small businesses and ensure we get funding to rebuild public housing - among other things.

  Cedric Richmond

  Fighting, Eight, Support

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• Support for shelters and transitional living and housing programs is necessary if we are going to change the landscape for homeless boys and girls in America.

  Jewel

  Girl, Boys, America

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• There are only two markets, ultraluxury and subsidized housing.

  Rafael Vinoly

  Two

  "Sky High and Going Up Fast: Luxury Towers Take New York" by Charles V. Bagli, www.nytimes.com. May 18, 2013.

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• We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If we had in America really serious efforts to break down discrimination in housing, and at the same time a concerted program of government aid to improve housing for Negroes, I think that many white people would be surprised at how many Negroes would choose to live among themselves, exactly as Poles and Jews and other ethnic groups do.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Thinking, White, America

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• The real story in housing will be a recovery in the economy that will drive a recovery in housing, When people are working, when there are more jobs, more households forming and people go back to buying cars, they're going to want their apartments and homes. And that's when you'll start to see a recovery in home prices.

  Jamie Dimon

  Jobs, Real, Recovery

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• If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before.

  George Clooney

  Comedy, Havens, Ifs

  "Clooney Chats Leatherheads". Interview with Orlando Parfitt, www.ign.com. April 10, 2008.

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• The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the housing sector.

  David Lereah

  Home, Affirmation, Pending

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• I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness. I've always said I hold him responsible for that.

  Jack Layton

  Country, Believe, Affordable Housing

  "Layton Slams Martin Over Deaths of Homeless". www.theglobeandmail.com. May 27, 2004.

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• Even more fundamental than housing to the global financial economy is the idea that the U.S. government is a safe asset.

  Ezra Klein

  Government, Ideas, Fundamentals

  Source: www.today.com

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• Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff - watch out!

  Walter E. Williams

  Equality, Should Have, Taught Us

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• Many of the projects I'm most proud of are tall buildings, especially the housing projects. In New York I have two: one in Kips Bay and one at New York University. At that time, those projects were most challenging.

  I. M. Pei

  New York, Two, Challenges

  Source: archtalks.com

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• The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.

  Robin Zander

  Mortgage, Culprit, Private Sector

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• We saw people sleeping in homeless encampments in Napa Valley and Sonoma. Horrific ones in Watsonville. It's different because you're looking at homelessness and the lack of housing, less than something that's institutionalized.

  Sanjay Rawal

  Sleep, People, Different

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The way the housing market imploded is obviously not an easy thing to explain. It's a little bit easier in a book - people can take their time, you can sort of go back and reread - but in a movie you've got two hours to not only explain things like collateralized debt obligations, but you also have to make it entertaining.

  Kelly McEvers

  Book, Two, People

  "On The Money: How 'The Big Short' And Its Jerk Heroes Explain Finance". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. December 11, 2015.

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• The building housing America's military brass is a five-sided pentagon, but somehow, the people in it still manage to make it the squarest place on earth. The latest evidence? A current military document that lists homosexuality as a mental disorder in the same league as mental retardation - noting, of course, the one difference: retarded people can still get into heaven.

  Jon Stewart

  Military, Differences, America

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• Louisville, Colorado, which was just voted by CNN and Money magazine as the best place to live, is a veritable Whitopia that is unaffected by the housing crisis and even the severe recession. You look at the best places to live, according to Money's 2009 list, and 9 of the 10 are Whitopias.

  Richard Benjamin

  Cnn, Colorado, Louisville

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• To put everyone in government housing and food stamps and bring them in from around the world I think is a mistake. To give of your own money, I've given to my church. My church has helped people that came from Bosnia. That's a good thing.

  Rand Paul

  Mistake, Thinking, Government

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• The glue that kept the consumer market together the last few years was the wealth effect from the housing boom.

  Joel C. Rosenberg

  Years, Together, Lasts

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• Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.

  Vinod Khosla

  Oil, Interesting, House

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• There are several ways in order to reduce the housing problem.One way is to allow a developer to buy land more cheaply if it's in an outlying area.

  George Deukmejian

  Order, Land, Way

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