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

  Tom Vilsack

  Strong, Keys, Iowa

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

  Eric Cantor

  Responsibility, Government, People

  "Midterm Elections Preview on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. October 10, 2010.

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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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• Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

  Hillary Clinton

  Education, Religious, Children

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• I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever!

  Thomas Menino

  Years, Best Year, Proud

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• It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

  Robert Gibbs

  Jobs, Eight, Years

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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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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• So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training.

  Josephus Daniels

  Men, Volunteer, Giving

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• We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food

  Kathleen Sebelius

  World, Care, Next

  "Commentary: Health care can't wait" By Kathleen Sebelius, www.cnn.com. July 15, 2009.

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• And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise.

  Franklin Raines

  Economy, Danger, Interest

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• Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

  Sargent Shriver

  Education, Racism, Racist

  Sargent Shriver (1964). “Point of the lance”

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• I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Two, Community, Assistants

  President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• 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.

  Jane Byrne

  Ideas, People, Way

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• The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Looks, Today, Modern

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

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• We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan.

  Shaukat Aziz

  Needs, Pakistan, World

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• We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.

  John Prescott

  Believe, House, Pounds

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• While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.

  Bruce Hornsby

  People, Way, Things Change

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• One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, have worked together so well with our chairman and the chairman of the full committee to address the issues of housing for our soldiers.

  Robin Hayes

  Men, Years, Issues

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