Thomas Menino Quotes

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

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

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

The Federal Government is achieving its stated goal of helping more minorities go from being renters to being owners.

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.

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.

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.

Our Government is proud to support the Provincial Metis Housing Corporation and its local partners, like Yorkton Parkland Housing, and all of the important work they do in our province to help those in need. With a roof over their heads, all Canadians can prosper as we work together towards eliminating homelessness.

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

Our soldiers and their families are benefiting. They deserve good, quality housing and they need it.

Help for first time buyers and other housing market measures will be welcome.

Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent.

Democracy’s opportunity. Here is the opportunity to be of service to the people. Here is the chance for this party to have been of service to the people of the United States. Here is our chance to have been of help to the poor man. Here is our chance to have relieved him of the burdens and to have given him the benefits of a government that could have promoted the enterprises and furnished the conveniences and the facilities needed by every man, woman, and child in this country.

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

Local government cannot resolve the health care crisis in America. Local governments cannot resolve the affordable housing problem in America.

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

People who receive mortgage tax relief … do not consider themselves to be benefits of government largess and can thus blithely talk about the government as something irrelevant to their lives except as a tax burden.

Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition..

When you ask people why they were evicted, the big reason is nonpayment of rent. They can't afford to keep a roof over their heads. Utilities are a big part of the story too, while the third leg on the table is the lack of government help with housing.

During the 1960s, rising real wages for low-income and high-income workers, due in part to rapid economic growth and the spread of unionization, worked in tandem with expanding government support systems to improve Americans' well-being.

I don't want to sound Pollyannish about this. I understand that poverty is never just poverty. It's often this collection of maladies, this compounded adversity. I'm not naive about the problem. But I think that stable, steady housing is one of the surest footholds we could have on the road to financial stability.

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

Habitat for Humanity is making Cleveland better every day.

A lot flows from the question: Is having decent, stable housing part of what it means to live in this country? And I think we should answer 'yes.'