Gerald R. Ford Quotes

The emphasis of the program should be changed from traditional publicly built slum based high rise projects to smaller units on scattered sites.

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

We are asking the question: What makes the most sense for public-private partnerships for affordable housing.

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.

In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement.

I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I grew up on a council estate when I was younger.

I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have played their part which have fountains and statues and grass and trees, which are as important to the concept of the home as the roof itself.

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.

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

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

Why shouldn't public housing be run by the tenants?

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

A community is business, education, and housing. Without those, the community suffers.

The city ... is involved in the fight for its life. One of the critical battlegrounds is the struggle to preserve middle class residential neighborhoods.

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.

I want to be known internationally as one of the most creative real estate developers in low-income communities. I want to be known as someone who actually promotes economic diversity and does a great job.

Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing assistance. The opposite is true.

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 teach at Harvard, and focusing on understanding this problem on a national level is a big priority of mine right now - where evictions are going up and down, what cities are actually instituting policies that work, what housing insecurity is doing to our cities, neighbourhoods, our kids.