London Breed Quotes

Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.

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

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.

Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

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.

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.

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

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.

I got a rent-stabilized apartment in 1977, and that has made my life as an actor possible.

When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.

What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of welfare recipients and low wage workers.

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

It's - the working class of San Francisco and the Bay Area is being pushed out of its old neighborhoods because of the skyrocketing cost of housing, and there's no real working class left because these are jobs for engineers and managers and designers - very smart people.

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.

If I become mayor of London, my single biggest priority will be to build thousands more homes every year. I will set a target to make half of all the new homes that are built genuinely affordable, with first dibs for Londoners.

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

In London the average person is paying 50 per cent of their income on rent. Just think how much better off people would feel if that number was a lot lower.

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

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

We need a coordinated, citywide approach to make sure that everyone in San Francisco is sheltered and has access to the care they need.

It is unacceptable that people often have to make huge sacrifices just to find a place to live, a roof over their heads.

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

I know people who have been without a home for ages, and lots of my friends are sofa surfing because they are in between jobs or saving for degrees and other studies - paying £500 rent every month is just not feasible for them.

There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away.

There shouldn't be two Indias; we need affordable housing. There are projections that by 2017, 18.78 million will be the number of those living in slums.