Unaffordable Housing Quotes

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

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.

We are not strangers to poverty in New Mexico.

I felt great empathy for the thousands of Americans who lost their home because of a system that failed them.

Poor families are living above their means, in apartments they cannot afford. The thing is, those apartments are already at the bottom of the market.

My mother paid eight dollars a month for rent. When she had it. Mostly we were evicted, because she couldnt afford to pay the eight dollars a month.

Heavy rents which are become so great a burden to us that we are not scarcely able to bear. Between landlord and rectors, the very marrow is screwed out of our bones ….They have reduced us to such a deplorable state by such grievous oppressions that the poor is turned black in the face … and they are rendered incapable to support their starving families … that they have not even food, nor raiment to secure them from the extremes of weather.

To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.

Since 2016 we've been campaigning to improve the rights of renters, especially those on low incomes who are being ripped off by stratospheric admin fees, which puts them at risk of homelessness.

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.

Houses were sold with the idea that the people who bought them would not be able to pay for them..

How can anyone live off of minimum wage?

It's easy to struggle in New York. I think New York is a bit expensive.

What a miserable place a city is for poor people.

A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.

It is plain that we don't care about our poor people except to exploit them as cheap labor and victimize them through excessive rents and consumer prices.

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.

The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing costs and stagnant wages, slightly more than half of all poor renting families in the country spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing costs, and at least one in four spends more than 70 percent.

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.

I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.

Food poverty exists because of unemployment, low wages, high costs of heating, as well as problems at the DWP including delays in receiving social security, and the cruel and unfair Bedroom Tax.

I've lived in poverty.

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

The sad fact is that in communities such as mine, the minimum wage is the maximum wage.