Shehbaz Sharif Quotes

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

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'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.

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

Young mothers who apply for housing assistance in our nation's capital literally could be grandmothers by the time their application is reviewed.

Well, my grandmother, she raised me in public housing.

Housing vouchers are a vital lifeline for many people I know in New Orleans and around the country, including struggling artists.

As someone who grew up in public housing, I've known these conditions.

All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have had subsidized housing. Most of my childhood, we had a two-bedroom apartment, but eventually we got into the projects, where we had four bedrooms. That was great.

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

I grew up in Burbank - but not the Burbank of valet parking and TV studios. In the late 1950s, there was a small apartment complex on Elmwood Avenue that rented mostly to families on welfare. I lived there from age 3 to 11 and again from 14 to 18 with my mother, Shirley, and my younger sister, Toni.

This is kind of a uniquely New York experience, but when you can't afford an apartment nicer than the place you're renting, there's something so inherently depressing about it.

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.

Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don't visit - a council estate: a concrete bunker subsidized by the local government, synonymous with deprivation and blight.

Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss.

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

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.

Since the publication of 'Evicted', I have had countless conversations with concerned families across America. Teachers in under-served communities have told me about high classroom turnover rates, which hinder students' ability to reach their full potential.

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

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

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

A lot of unemployed families were moved to Hastings, and places were built for them. They're communities of unemployed people. It's been difficult dealing with that.

The council estate I grew up on wasn't too bad.

The more the government has centralised, the less houses we have built.

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