David Ige Quotes

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

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

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.

... the best public housing I've ever seen.

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

There is a strong need for constructing low income houses in the province, for which the Punjab government has planned a programme of providing houses to low income strata.

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

If you want to decrease housing costs in Norway, the most important thing is to build more.

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

We've given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot.

The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.

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

Mobilize population and all partners—the public sector and the private sector. Development is everybody’s business.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

While it's absolutely important that we build housing for our low-income residents, when we are talking about opening up hundreds of sites for housing, we should be trying to build affordable housing for all of our residents struggling to pay rent. That means housing for teachers, for nurses, for janitors.

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

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.