Cea Weaver Quotes

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

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.

The idea of giving to the homeless citizen a homestead is a humane one; but our public-land policy ought to be confined to that, and no one should be allowed to speculate in the common inheritance of all.

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

You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.

New York should be a place where everyone can afford to live.

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

Increases in stabilized rents impact rent stabilized tenants directly, but they also affect the affordability of all New Yorkers' rents.

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.

People should have affordable places to live. That's a fundamental right.

Fighting for tenants' rights has never been about political posturing for me. It's very personal. It's why I fight for everyone who's struggling to stay in San Francisco.

Whatever your race, colour or creed in London, you still want your children to get on the housing ladder. You still want spaces in hospitals or GP surgeries, you want school places and you want space on the trains in the mornings.

I am very open to looking at potential tax changes to improve housing affordability.

By solving housing and childcare problems, we will achieve a society where each person can properly invest in their development and realize their full potential.

I didn't come from a real estate background originally. I was going to school for business and was struggling to find a place to live because there weren't enough rental properties available to students.

All New Yorkers have the right to decent housing, regardless of income and rent.

I will fight for affordable housing for teachers, police, fire fighters, and families in all our neighborhoods.

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.

I just want to keep working and have a roof over my head.

I have the ability and the will to lead San Francisco in building more housing. Without it, people like me who grew up in San Francisco, and people who came here for the values we embrace will simply not be able to stay.

Every day on our streets there are people who are facing a combination of homelessness, mental illness, and addiction. Each of these conditions is challenging alone, but when experienced at the same time it creates a downward spiral that makes it even more difficult for the person to get treated and housed.

It is about time county councils got back into the business of providing houses.

There's no question we need more housing, and we have to fight for that throughout California.