Carrie Lam Quotes

There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away.

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.

I'm going to rely upon the advice of affordable housing experts to make sure we meet the public's expectations.

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.

There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.

I strongly believe supply is the best way to address housing affordability.

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

We have got to build more affordable homes in the south of England, we've just got to.

We need a government policy all-out in favor of more, denser housing.

We can't keep limiting ourselves when it comes to housing. Affordable housing and teacher housing are too crucial to let the failed policies of the past get in the way.

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.

We need a national ambition to build hundreds of thousands of new homes a year, both private and socially-rented - led by someone who will not take no for an answer and who will push for diggers in the ground and homes for all come what may.

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

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.

When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans.

If we don't like rent control, we ought to oppose it on political and social grounds - and not just by arguing that, thanks to smartphones and social networks, we can create new, more efficient markets for matching short-term renters with tenants.

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

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.

Frankly, people buying a home to let should not be squeezing out families who can't afford a home to buy.

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.

The average person that lives in Sydney, if they want to buy a house in Sydney, that shouldn't be out of reach for them.

Building and preserving housing, along with keeping people housed, are critical to making our city more affordable for all.

Fighting for tenants' rights has never been about political posturing for me. It's very personal. It's why I fight for everyone who's struggling to stay in San Francisco.

All New Yorkers have the right to decent housing, regardless of income and rent.

I have the ability and the will to lead San Francisco in building more housing. Without it, people like me who grew up in San Francisco, and people who came here for the values we embrace will simply not be able to stay.