Affordable Housing Quotes

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.

The voters have been very clear that we need to address the homelessness and housing crisis that is affecting our City, and I remain focused on solving these issues.

They need to be rent controlled, and the reason they need to be rent controlled is not because rent control is inherently socialist, but because rent control limits the speculative value of the land. Our goals is to have the housing actually be worthless in to some degree.

When 70% of Millennials say they are pro-socialist, we need to do better than simply dismiss them by saying that they are stupid or entitled or brainwashed; we should try and understand why. And, from the perspective of a broken generational compact, there seems to be a pretty straightforward answer to me, namely, that when one has too much student debt or if housing is too unaffordable, then one will have negative capital for a long time, and if one has no stake in the capitalist system, then one may well turn against it.

Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable.

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

No one who works full time and has children should be poor in America.

Maybe for John McCain the American dream means seven houses-and if that's your America, John McCain is your candidate. But for the rest of us, the American dream means one home - in a safe neighborhood, with good schools and good health care and a little money left over every month to go out for dinner and save for the future. Does that seem like too much to ask? John McCain thinks it is.

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

Builders may receive due encouragement by having materials for building at reasonable prices.

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.

It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people.

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

Basically, New York housing is designed by formula, with lots of restrictions.

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

Employers are as sensitive to housing costs as their employees, which is why, when we build more houses, we create more jobs.

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

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.

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.

Neither of my parents live in Oakland anymore. They both got priced out.

There is a strong need for constructing low income houses in the province, for which the Punjab government has planned a programme of providing houses to low income strata.

the right to employment … the right to social security, to health care and to social, medical and legal aid … the right to have decent accommodation … the right to enjoy the protection of a healthy environment … the right to enjoy cultural and social fulfillment …

When I came to New York, it was cheap!

I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.

The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life