George Deukmejian Quotes

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

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

Cities around the United States do not have land use planning like we have in Oregon, and they are all struggling with issues like affordable housing.

We need a government policy all-out in favor of more, denser housing.

I have a new theory of history, which is certain things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. And suburbia seemed like a good idea at the time, but it was a special time and place in history, with special dynamics. And now, we're going to have to live with the consequences of that. And the consequences will be tragic.

Annexation is probably the most valuable tool a city has to ensure orderly growth and development.

I looked around, and I saw cottages everywhere. I thought it was time they lived in apartments.

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.

Business was bound to come; light industries were already shopping for land. The quiet country farms were already going, and developments would take over... Eventually, of course, we will have to have some sort of plan to guide future development.

Every state has the right to take the necessary steps to maintain under public control the use, possession, disposal and reservation of land. Every state has the right to plan and regulate the use of land, which is one of its most important resources, in such a way that the growth of population centers both urban and rural are based on a comprehensive land use plan.

The suburbs of yesterday do not look at all like the suburbs of today.

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

Incentives and infrastructure should encourage development and that development needs to contain the right types of housing in the right places.

We need to reform our land use policies to build more housing in urban centers and near transit.

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.

The proper form of economy must be observed in building houses for each and every class.

We need to revisit that planning decision because in many cases across our capital [London], greenbelt land doesn't deserve the name. Car parks, quarries and wastelands are being protected and we are saying there isn't enough land to build the houses we need.

What kind of city are we living in, if we encourage the development or ownership of large, expensive properties for investment and land banking... while people are sleeping on the streets?

We need find the space to build more affordable homes in the city. That involves a number of different policy responses. For example, I've spoken about the need to rethink the greenbelt - the protected land around the edge of London that was originally intended to be protected and retained as an area of natural beauty but in many cases is neither natural nor beautiful.

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

I live in New York City, but I live in Hoboken because it's cheaper there, and I can own a condo.

We have to be bold and serve all San Franciscans who are struggling to afford housing.

It's hard to improve our schools. It's hard to redistribute wealth created by the concentration of technological and financial power or to increase middle-class wages. But it might be easier to lower middle-class costs by building more housing.

For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.