Edward Brooke Quotes

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

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.

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.

If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.

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.

People should have affordable places to live. That's a fundamental right.

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.

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

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

After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

There is no greater priority for the department whose name begins with 'housing' than dealing with houselessness .... We can do better than 1 million people sleeping in the streets.

It ought to be considered a reward for good citizenship and good parenting to get into public housing.

Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing assistance. The opposite is true.

Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.

If I become mayor of London, my single biggest priority will be to build thousands more homes every year. I will set a target to make half of all the new homes that are built genuinely affordable, with first dibs for Londoners.

It is about time county councils got back into the business of providing houses.

I would like to make sure I'm not homeless.

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

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

But where else should they sleep?

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a home.

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

We live in a normal apartment, just like every other citizen. We have ensured an apartment for every citizen.

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

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.