Evgeny Morozov Quotes

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

Kill the Rent Hog and the Interest Hog.

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

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

I got a rent-stabilized apartment in 1977, and that has made my life as an actor possible.

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.

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

I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.

In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.

Increases in stabilized rents impact rent stabilized tenants directly, but they also affect the affordability of all New Yorkers' rents.

I think it's not just a matter of building more houses, more flats. We need to have the right policies. I want people to be able to own their flats.

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

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

We need more housing in San Francisco, plain and simple, and we especially need more affordable housing for our low-income households, seniors, teachers, formerly homeless people, veterans, and middle-income residents.

There's no question we need more housing, and we have to fight for that throughout California.

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.

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 don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

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.

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.

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

The old simplifications about "more" schools and "more" housing, or even "better" schools or "better" housing, have not proved very successful in breaking the cycle of poverty or in dealing with the Negro family structure.

If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord to evict a tenant who falls behind under those circumstances, eviction becomes an inevitability.

Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure, or building condemnation.

Eviction riots erupted during the Depression, though the number of poor families who faced eviction each year was a fraction of what it is today.