Alphonso Jackson Quotes

Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the 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.

You can use up all the slums for new development. In all the cities of the world, there are large areas of these. Also, you can avoid the spread of these silly suburban houses. Chicago has thousands of them all over the place.

I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.

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

I think Giuliani started a trend that Bloomberg continued with rampant gentrification, and I think it's tough because why would any city choose not to do that?

Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial.

Environment, homelessness, infrastructure and immigration - I'm very focused on all four, which are critical to the success of Los Angeles.

Bridges and stations are very strongly related to the development of a city.

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

In urbanization, you think big because you are thinking decades ahead.

The Dallas model, prominent in the South and Southwest, sees a growing population as a sign of urban health. Cities liberally permit housing construction to accommodate new residents. The Los Angeles model, common on the West Coast and in the Northeast Corridor, discourages growth by limiting new housing.

We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.

The biggest thing growing cities need to do is minimize barriers to development so that as long as someone is doing good urbanism, they can get permitted quickly and get building quickly.

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.

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

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

The agreement of the owners to build no structure less than ten feet from the street was probably the first instance in Boston of a restriction upon real estate that had in view the symmetry and general appearance of a street lined with buildings

We need to create planned communities: whole new towns with the infrastructure and amenities they need, communities where people genuinely want to live, and built where demand is high.

London is the greatest city in the world, but we're at a crossroads. Ordinary Londoners have been priced out of our city because of the housing crises. We're a city that's growing in population, but the infrastructure can't cope with the growth.

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