Billy Sunday Quotes

You cannot let men live like pigs …. We need not wait for the Millennium to get rid of the slum. We can do it now.

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.

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.

In Rio, 1.4 million of the 6.3 million people live in favelas, or slums. They are all over the city, but favelas are not always a problem - sometimes they can be a solution, if you have the right public policies.

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.

There shouldn't be two Indias; we need affordable housing. There are projections that by 2017, 18.78 million will be the number of those living in slums.

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

If you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.

I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord.

Obsession with the market seem to prevent ministers looking at the huge problem and all its ramifications in health, education and employment that come from the housing insecurity that too many face.

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.

I've been in many of them and to some extent I would have to say this; if you've seen one city slum you've seen them all.

Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.

Free markets and democracy are far from an overnight solution to poverty- they require among many other things the bottom-up evolution of the rules of the game, including contract enforcement and fair political competition.

There are thousands on thousands in New York who have no assignable home.

I know we haven't cleaned up all the slums, but I didn't create the slums, did I?

Our country has deliberately undertaken a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose.

Attacking poverty is very expensive, and means doing things politically that are either impossible or very difficult to bring off.

Look what we have built ... low-income projects that became worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.

For the first time in America's history, poverty is on the run.

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