Housing Problem Quotes

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

The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way out on a limb. They've brought it on by highly restrictive building policies, which have caused housing prices to skyrocket artificially. And they've brought it on by the Community Reinvestment Act, which presumes that politicians are better able to tell investors where to put their money than the investors themselves are. When you put all that together, you get something like what you have.

Yes, I've now got this nice little apartment in New York, one of those L-shaped ones. Unfortunately, it's a lower case l.

I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.

Some people say that rough sleeping has always existed and always will - that there is nothing that can be done to stop it. That is simply not true.

There are several ways in order to reduce the housing problem.One way is to allow a developer to buy land more cheaply if it's in an outlying area.

Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial.

Local government cannot resolve the health care crisis in America. Local governments cannot resolve the affordable housing problem in America.

Housing is the number one problem facing the citizens of Israel.

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