Maxine Waters Quotes

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

Every American will be given a decent, safe and affordable home.

I'm going to change everything you believe about HUD.

While it's absolutely important that we build housing for our low-income residents, when we are talking about opening up hundreds of sites for housing, we should be trying to build affordable housing for all of our residents struggling to pay rent. That means housing for teachers, for nurses, for janitors.

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.

Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.

There isn't profit to be made off low-rent housing, and it's time we acknowledge that, instead of perverting a system around maintaining private ownership.

We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable housing program would be an anti-poverty effort, human capital investment, community improvement plan, and public health initiative all rolled into one.

Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an American? I say yes.

Well, my grandmother, she raised me in public housing.

I will fight for affordable housing for teachers, police, fire fighters, and families in all our neighborhoods.

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.

I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.

Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand.

I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance.

Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.

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

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.

Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

We must work to help all families and all communities realize their dream of a better future.

I've always been such a fan of Habitat for Humanity and the work that they do.

We’ve got to hold our government responsible for providing the kinds of supports that parents need.

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.

We make it harder to raise kids than just about any other country.