Richard H. Baker Quotes

You cannot let men live like pigs …. We need not wait for the Millennium to get rid of the slum. We can do it now.

I know we haven't cleaned up all the slums, but I didn't create the slums, did I?

The rebuilding of New Orleans is an important point in the history of the United States.

A ghetto can be improved in only one way; out of existence.

There are thousands on thousands in New York who have no assignable home.

There is plenty of affordable housing —it is simply occupied by the wrong people.... The problem in New York is not high rents, but low incomes.

Look what we have built ... low-income projects that became worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.

The slums will be but a memory.

I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.

My take on gentrification and change is it's usually always a better thing, because when you see all these businesses open and flourishing, that means there are more jobs.

Gentrification and housing shortages are complex issues.

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.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.

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

The New Orleans I knew ain't no more.

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord.

But where else should they sleep?

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a 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.

I am not looking for people to be more kind to the homeless; I want to put an end to homelessness.

If you people can’t afford to live in our town, then you’ll just have to leave.

The city ... is involved in the fight for its life. One of the critical battlegrounds is the struggle to preserve middle class residential neighborhoods.