Affordable Housing Quotes

• 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, Demand

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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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• 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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• 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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• There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever.

  Conor Oberst

  Growing Up, Cities, Ideas

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• Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonpolluting, ubiquitous energy. Building this better world is humanity's grandest challenge.

  Peter Diamandis

  People, Water, Challenges

  Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler (2014). “Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Government, Study

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.30, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Every Ontarian deserves to have a stable, affordable home. As we update our Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy, I want to hear your views on how we can make Ontario's housing system work better for you, your family, and your community.

  Ted McMeekin

  Home, Views, Long

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• For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

  James Howard Kunstler

  World, Common, Form

  Source: www.raisethehammer.org

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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, Dramatic

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

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• Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Vision, Made

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.92, Hoover Press

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• After political crusades for 'affordable housing' ended up ruining the housing market and much of the economy with it, many of the same politicians are now carrying on a crusade for 'affordable health care.' But what you can afford has absolutely nothing to do with the cost of producing anything. Refusing to pay those costs means that you are just not going to continue getting the same quantity and quality - regardless of what any politician says or how well he says it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Political, Quality

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• At some point in your life you have to engage with the fact that you are part of a society. Yeah the individual is the most important facet in society but unless every individual is the recipient of free health care, free education decent affordable housing and a proper pension then only the rich and powerful will be individuals and the rest of us will be exploited by them.

  Billy Bragg

  Powerful, Free Education, Important

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• The people who are working, paying their taxes are put into the system so that affordable housing could be built in neighborhoods that they probably live in that. That they may not want to, they may pay a premium so that they could live where they want to live and you end up with just another massive redistribution of wealth.

  Eric Bolling

  People, May, Want

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The Fed needs to adopt new tools, on its own and perhaps in cooperation with the other parts of the US government, to improve the economy from the bottom up. This includes increasing facilities for debt forgiveness for under-water mortgages and excessive student loans; increased credit facilities for small businesses and cooperatives; helping to underwrite mechanisms for creating affordable housing in cities; and more restrictive enforcement of financial regulatory rules to help rein in excessive banker risk and pay.

  Gerald Epstein

  Government, Cities, Creating

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• These two entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.

  Barney Frank

  Two, People, Pressure

  The New York Times, September 11, 2003.

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• I say we must have a movement that brings those troops home and launch a crusade to transform our school buildings, we launch a crusade to see to it that every citizen has adequate and affordable housing, we launch a crusade to make universal health care. We need not soldiers anymore in the world. We've had enough of them in western history.

  James Lawson

  Home, School, Soldier

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• 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.

  Jonathan Reckford

  Prayer, Loss, Giants

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