John Prescott Quotes

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

We need a national ambition to build hundreds of thousands of new homes a year, both private and socially-rented - led by someone who will not take no for an answer and who will push for diggers in the ground and homes for all come what may.

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

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.

Local authorities face huge housing issues with demands outstripping supply many times over; the only way those in housing need can be housed is in the private sector.

We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.

Shovel Ready

It's often been said that politics in Islington, in many ways, begins and ends with housing, and it's not hard to see why. Despite the borough's image of exclusivity - the stereotype that it's all Georgian squares and cappuccino bars - the reality is much more complex.

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

We have got to build more affordable homes in the south of England, we've just got to.

If people need homes then put councils and building workers to work to build them, buy up the empty ones and stop the repossessions.

I think housing is not a simple commodity because we are so in short supply of land. So the government has a role to play in providing housing - decent housing and affordable housing - for the people of Hong Kong.

The Conservative government's neglect of social housing is all too apparent and should be a source of national shame.

What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities big and small, and we don't have the resources necessary to fill that gap.

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

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.

Building and preserving housing, along with keeping people housed, are critical to making our city more affordable for all.

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.

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.

I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.

Neither of my parents live in Oakland anymore. They both got priced out.

I do know that homelessness is related to housing, and we haven't been producing housing in the numbers that our community requires - a lot of the escalating costs of housing is related to the fact that supply is way short than demand.

It is no secret that New York City has an affordable housing shortage. For those who've returned from the battlefield, the problem is even more pronounced.

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

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