Alphonso Jackson Quotes

If we are ever going to fix our housing affordability crisis, we have to make significant changes to how we plan and construct, and we have to be open to solutions that make it easier and faster to build much-needed housing.

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

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

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.

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.

We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot.

It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

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.

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

The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.

Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.

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.

We know we've got a problem attracting to certain areas because of the cost of living, so we're thinking about things from how do we ensure key workers have accessible and affordable housing; also, how do we attract people into teaching as well.

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

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.

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.

It is no secret that New York City has an affordable housing shortage. For those who've returned from the battlefield, the problem is even more pronounced.

I'd hate to see new housing building accelerating while taking down buildings where there's 50 people living in rent-stabilized apartments.

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.

We can't solve the issues of homelessness without more housing.

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.

There is a strong need for constructing low income houses in the province, for which the Punjab government has planned a programme of providing houses to low income strata.