Steve Forbes Quotes

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.

It ought to be considered a reward for good citizenship and good parenting to get into public housing.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

Every American will be given a decent, safe and affordable 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.

Anything which dominates the life of the community should be owned by the community.

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

I grew up on a council estate when I was younger.

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.

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

If there is 'right to buy' for council tenants and housing association properties, then why shouldn't that apply to all tenants? Some landlords are decent, very caring people, but some of them are truly appalling.

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

We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.

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.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

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

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.

There is a lack of emphasis and detail on self-government of business enterprises and community government. There is too much emphasis on the part that the Project Director and his staff play. Governmental officials should not impose their will on the residents, but the government should be formulated by the residents. It is absolutely essential that the personnel understand and sympathize with the policy of self-government.

We live in a normal apartment, just like every other citizen. We have ensured an apartment for every citizen.

The emphasis of the program should be changed from traditional publicly built slum based high rise projects to smaller units on scattered sites.

Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition..

... the best public housing I've ever seen.

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

There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.

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