Housing Quotes

One of the biggest problems that we have right now is that in some areas of the State we cannot get additional jobs created because they say the housing costs are too high.

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.

I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida.

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.

In fact, Donald [Trump] was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis.

We have to face up to systemic racism. We see it in jobs, we see it in education, we see it in housing. But let's be really clear; it's a big part of what we're facing in the criminal justice system.

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

I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.

If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker.

Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for?

The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family.

What's scary is that Donald Trump has his own sordid history when it comes to discrimination - in housing, in particular.

If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.

The impact of the downturn is starting to feel very real. House prices and the housing market have been taking the knock for some time and that's affecting people.

Housing affects everything, and we continue to live in very, very segregated communities.

When I bought my house in L.A., that was the best business decision I ever made, until the housing market crashed, and it became the worst business decision I ever made.

Actually, high housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living.

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

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.

There are only two markets, ultraluxury and subsidized housing.

We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. The bubble burst in housing because people couldn’t pay their mortgages because of $4 a gallon gasoline.

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

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

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

Race and class reinforce one another in housing. Our America Divided story, "A House Divided," shows that racist discrimination in housing is alive and well in the Big Apple.

Almost every key indicator of the current economy - unemployment, deficits, housing, energy - argues that Obama's reactionary all-powerful statist approach has only made things far worse.

The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable.

I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals.

Housing without people, and people without housing.

Most poor people in America were like Arleen: they did not live in public housing or apartments subsidized by vouchers. Three in four families who qualified for assistance received nothing.

There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.

No moral code or ethical principle, no piece of scripture or holy teaching, can be summoned to defend what we have allowed our country to become.

It was not that low-income renters didn’t know their rights. They just knew those rights would cost them.

Today, the majority of poor renting families in America spend over half of their income on housing, and at least one in four dedicates over 70 percent to paying the rent and keeping the lights on.

Families with children were turned away in as many as 7 in 10 housing searches.

In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukee’s blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate, due in large part to poor housing conditions.

Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.

Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.

Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.

For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.