London Breed Quotes

If eviction has these massive consequences that we all pay for, a very smart use of public funds would be to invest in legal services for folks facing eviction.

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

For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

It takes a good amount of time and money to establish a home. Eviction can erase all that.

Tenants don't have any right to court-appointed attorneys in civil court, so they're either facing their landlord - or his or her attorney - alone, or they just don't show up. That reflects a severe power imbalance.

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

Between 2009 and 2011, more than one in eight Milwaukee renters were displaced involuntarily, whether by formal or informal eviction, landlord foreclosure, or building condemnation.

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.

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 had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer.

I didn't save my money for a lawyer. I was a very young man, and saved my money for having a good time.

Legal aid... is fundamental to giving everybody in this country access to justice.

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

I'd probably say to my younger self, get yourself a whole collection of lawyers. Which is what I have now.

Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent.

The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.

Each investigation team has a lawyer attached to it and there was a lawyer attached to me and my assistant.

If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord to evict a tenant who falls behind under those circumstances, eviction becomes an inevitability.

Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain benefits or getting a foothold in the labor market, the record of eviction comes with consequences as well. It can bar you from getting good housing in a good neighborhood.

Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.

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.

Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.

If you look at the American Household Survey, the last time we did that in 2013, renters in over 2.8 million homes thought they would be evicted soon.

These days, there are sheriff squads whose full-time job is to carry out eviction and foreclosure orders. There are moving companies specializing in evictions, their crews working all day, every weekday.

If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.