Julian Castro Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

We have to be bold and serve all San Franciscans who are struggling to afford housing.

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

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.

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

The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

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

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

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.

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

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.

We can't keep limiting ourselves when it comes to housing. Affordable housing and teacher housing are too crucial to let the failed policies of the past get in the way.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

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

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.

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.

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.

When you ask people why they were evicted, the big reason is nonpayment of rent. They can't afford to keep a roof over their heads. Utilities are a big part of the story too, while the third leg on the table is the lack of government help with housing.

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

There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.