Atishi Quotes

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.

The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.

When you hear that China is overcrowded, that's an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural areas. I was also shocked at the poverty and at the living conditions.

We can solve a housing problem or we can try to solve a racial problem. But we cannot combine the two.

The slums will be but a memory.

It is not squalid people who produce the squalid housing; it is the squalid housing that makes squalid people.

… many social problems stem from poor housing.

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.

London is the greatest city in the world, but we're at a crossroads. Ordinary Londoners have been priced out of our city because of the housing crises. We're a city that's growing in population, but the infrastructure can't cope with the growth.

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

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

People who live inside garbage piles - that should not be happening.

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

We can't solve the issues of homelessness without more housing.

One big mistake that we made in Delhi is that we made it a low-rise city which means that rich people have nice green colonies while the poor live in dusty areas.

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

For far too many, the housing crisis has become a human crisis, with people being criminalised who should instead be protected as our most vulnerable citizens.

Young mothers who apply for housing assistance in our nation's capital literally could be grandmothers by the time their application is reviewed.

All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.

I see this rise in rough sleeping and homelessness - in one of the wealthiest cities in the world - as a growing source of shame. And as Londoners, as a city, and as a country, I believe we have a moral duty to tackle it head-on.

South Tel Aviv has turned into the garbage can of the country.

I've always thought that the level of homelessness in society is likely to be a truer measure of how civilised we are then almost any other factor.

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

I think that New York City in the year 1900 was a very difficult place to survive.

Coronavirus has exposed for all what many of us already knew - some of our most important workers have barely enough to live on, and millions are condemned to financial insecurity, inequality and food poverty.