Housing Quotes - Page 12

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

  Sean Strub

  Children, People, Hiv

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• We were talking to shop owners or ordinary people who were living in these buildings now. A lot of the Olympic Villages were turned into housing.

  Gary Hustwit

  Talking, People, Ordinary

  Source: www.salon.com

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• If the white man can come here uneducated and as an immigrant, and within 10 or 15 years set up an industry that provides job opportunities and educational opportunities for black people, then if the black man, the black leadership, who has access to all of this money and has all of these degrees today, can't use his talent and his know-how to set up business opportunities, job opportunities, housing opportunities for the black people the same as the white leaders have done for white people, then these black leaders need to get off the boat.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Educational, Opportunity

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• As long as the factories are in the hands of the whites, the housing is in the hands of the whites, the school system is in the hands of the whites, you have a situation where the blacks are constantly begging the whites can they use this or can they use that. That's not any kind of equality of opportunity, nor does it lend toward one's dignity.

  Malcolm X

  School, Opportunity, Hands

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• Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem.

  Malcolm X

  Jobs, Heart, Tokenism

  Source: teachingamericanhistory.org

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• Child-care costs are now the largest family expenditure in much of America, even exceeding the cost of housing.

  Donald Trump

  Children, America, Cost

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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

  Jumaane Williams

  Scary, Discrimination, Trump

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The reality is that the "gayborhoods" are going away. It's because of many factors, including the internet and increased acceptance, but mostly it's the cost of housing.

  Cleve Jones

  Acceptance, Reality, Going Away

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There's a black lawyer in Galveston, Texas, who was the unpaid NAACP general counsel in Texas. He had a great record in housing discrimination, labor discrimination. He decided to take as a client a member of the Ku Klux Klan because the state wanted to get the membership lists of the Klan to find out if they could get something on the Klan. And he said, `I got to take you. I despise you. But we, the NAACP, won that case; NAACP vs. Alabama in the 1950s. Nobody has the right to get your membership lists.' He was fired from the NAACP. To me, he's a hero.

  Nat Hentoff

  Hero, Texas, Ku Klux Klan

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• In the US after the Great Depression, they invested heavily in infrastructure to create a lot of employment. In Germany after the war there was the Marshall plan for roads, rail, housing, energy, water and so on. That created massive employment after the devastation of the war and helped them to rebuild the country.

  Raila Odinga

  Country, War, Water

  Source: concernedkenyan.blogspot.com

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• Did I recognize that there was anger or frustration in the American population? Of course I did. First of all, we had to fight back from the worst recession since the Great Depression, and I can guarantee you if your housing values have crashed and you've lost most of your pension and you've lost your job, you're going to be pretty angry.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Fighting, Frustration

  Remarks by President Obama and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece in Joint Press Conference, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2016.

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• This is where I think policies do need to be somewhat race-specific, is making sure that institutions are not discriminatory. So you've got something like the FHA [Federal Housing Administration], which was on its face a universal program that involved a huge mechanism for wealth accumulation and people entering into the middle class.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Race, Class

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• One of the things for me, as a biographer, that is so significant is for Eleanor Roosevelt - the child who never had a home of her own, who lives in her grandmother's home and then goes to school and then gets married and lives in her mother-in-law's homes, and then in public housing (like the White House and the State House) - housing becomes for Eleanor Roosevelt the most important issue.

  Blanche Wiesen Cook

  Mother, Children, Home

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now seen, and which are widely regarded as unappealing. They'll write, "It's going to be beautiful, we're going to have a town of 1,000 stone buildings that are all identical." And we as modern readers think, we've seen that; that's bad Soviet architecture or a public housing project. Nobody fantasizes about living there.

  Christine Jennings

  Beautiful, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• People understand who Donald Trump is. There was a lawsuit against him for housing discrimination, racial discrimination against African-Americans that`s been in "The New York Times". Decades ago with "The New York Times".

  Chris Hayes

  New York, People, African American

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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

  Win Butler

  Labels, Fundamentals, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We've excused all houses up to $750,000 from our property-purchase tax. We have more to do. There are other measures we intend to take to try and address housing affordability. There are things we can do. There are limits to it and we can't do it by ourselves.

  Christy Clark

  House, Trying, Addresses

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I think we are in this era right now where every element in a webpage is rendered to within an inch of its life. I think if it's a button, it looks like a physical button, you know, if it's a mailbox that's meant to signal a messaging functionality then the whole mailbox right down to the rivets on the hypothetical metallic housing is rendered.

  Khoi Vinh

  Thinking, Elements, Eras

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• The housing crisis may not be the worst thing that's happened to New York City because it was becoming impossible for some of the young doctors, for some of the young artists, for some of the people that make the city so special to be able to live here.

  Juan Enriquez

  New York, Artist, Doctors

  "Big Think Interview With Juan Enriquez". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 9, 2009.

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• I know my dear brother, President [Barack] Obama, has a bust of Martin King right there in the Oval Office, but the question is are is he going to be true to who that Martin Luther King, Jr., actually is? King was concerned about what? The poor. He was concerned about working people. He was concerned about quality jobs. He was concerned about quality housing. He was concerned about precious babies in Vietnam, the way we ought to be concerned about precious babies in Afghanistan and precious babies in Tel Aviv and precious babies in Gaza.

  Cornel West

  Baby, Brother, Kings

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• We must fundamentally restructure our student loan program. It makes no sense that students and their parents are forced to pay interest rates for higher education loans that are much higher than they pay for car loans or housing mortgages.

  Bernie Sanders

  Car, Parent, Pay

  "Sanders Calls for Higher Ed Funding Revolution". www.sanders.senate.gov. February 17, 2015.

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• Anyone that says the housing crisis can be resolved with one magic bullet or by the next election isn't being honest.

  David Lammy

  Magic, Bullets, Next

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• The construction of social housing and the attempt to support families seeking to buy their own homes are all projects from the 1960s and '70s. It all sounds old-fashioned, but it is actually completely modern.

  Martin Schulz

  Home, Support, Sound

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Rent control is one policy that economists universally would oppose. It is a grossly inefficient way of allocating housing space and, of course, it inhibits construction and creates the very thing it is supposed to alleviate. It is one of those things where people simply don't understand simple economics and, therefore, put in for political reasons what will damage the very people that it is designed to help. Minimum wage levels are another classic example.

  James M. Buchanan

  Simple, Space, People

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• Politically, sometimes you get situations where rent control will go through. It is especially true in an emergency, where there is a sudden, sharp increase in demand for housing or a cut back in supply. People will simply not allow the marketplace to allocate housing resources and so you get pressures for rent control. Once you have it, it is hard to eliminate.

  James M. Buchanan

  Cutting, People, Demand

  Source: www.aims.ca

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