Mary Landrieu Quotes

I have worked with Habitat for Humanity for awhile.

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

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

Housing is the number one problem facing the citizens of Israel.

Habitat for Humanity is making Cleveland better every day.

I do know that homelessness is related to housing, and we haven't been producing housing in the numbers that our community requires - a lot of the escalating costs of housing is related to the fact that supply is way short than demand.

Airbnb is built on the foundation of creating community through belonging, and we're honored to stand with a bipartisan group of mayors and businesses from across the country dedicated to improving communities by addressing affordable housing and homelessness.

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

We need a real tent city in the heart of Moscow.

We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot.

It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

Local authorities face huge housing issues with demands outstripping supply many times over; the only way those in housing need can be housed is in the private sector.

I'm very interested in working with nonprofits, people in education, medicine, people who are doing things to improve the world and who don't have the money to come to Siegel+Gale for help.

We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.

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

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

I am not looking for people to be more kind to the homeless; I want to put an end to homelessness.

You cannot let men live like pigs …. We need not wait for the Millennium to get rid of the slum. We can do it now.

The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.

As you know in this committee, we have all of HUD, and HUD is responsible for so many programs that determine the quality of life for women and families.

I teach at Harvard, and focusing on understanding this problem on a national level is a big priority of mine right now - where evictions are going up and down, what cities are actually instituting policies that work, what housing insecurity is doing to our cities, neighbourhoods, our kids.

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.

Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.

What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities big and small, and we don't have the resources necessary to fill that gap.