Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families. — Carolyn McCarthy
Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades — Marc Lamont Hill
Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa. — Tom Vilsack
Accelerate the establishment of a housing system with multi-subject supply and multi-channel guarantee for both rent and purchase. — Xi Jinping
We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness. — Millard Fuller
The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing. — Alphonso Jackson
Home ownership is the cornerstone of a strong community. — Rick Renzi
You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. — Jello Biafra
I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves! — Al Lewis
A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future. — Aga Khan IV
A house is a machine for living in. — Le Corbusier
Home is a sanctuary for me and the place where I can relax. Everyone should have the right to a safe and secure home. — Corinne Bailey Rae
In many cases rent control appears to be the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city - except for bombing. — Assar Lindbeck
As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo. — Gary Bauer
Everyone has the right to live in a great place. More importantly, everyone has the right to contribute to making the place where they already live great. — Fred Kent
No single housing finance institution should be too big to fail. — Jerome Powell
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security. — Suze Orman
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions. — Hafez
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. — A. E. Housman
People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes. — Sheila McKechnie
Choose your neighbors before choosing the house. — Moroccan Proverbs
What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights. — Glenn Beck
Favelas [slums] are not always a problem. Favelas can sometimes really be a solution. — Eduardo Paes
A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul. — Phillip Moffitt
Public Housing Image Quotes
People who complain in private want an answer. People who complain in public want an audience.
Social Housing Quotes
From education to employment, housing to trust in the police, politicians from all parties must understand the different issues affecting individual communities. — Rishi Sunak
Of all aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment. — Jane Addams
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing. — Patricia Hill Collins
Be the same person privately, publicly and personally.
For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories. — Kim Campbell
Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing. — Robert Kiyosaki
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. — Logan Pearsall Smith
The words you speak become the house you live in.
The worst side effect of wealth is the social associations it forces on its victims, as people with big houses end up socializing with other people with big houses. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse. — Jane Addams
Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children. — August Strindberg
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams
Affordable Housing Quotes
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. — William Baldwin
Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead. — Johnny Carson
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it. — Ellen Goodman
The words you speak become the house you live in.
These two entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are not facing any kind of financial crisis. The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing. — Barney Frank
When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans. — Randy Neugebauer
Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead. And, unlike communism, democracy does not mean having just one ineffective political party; it means having two ineffective political parties. — Johnny Carson
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Imagine a world of nine billion people with clean water, nutritious food, affordable housing, personalized education, top-tier medical care, and nonpolluting, ubiquitous energy. Building this better world is humanity's grandest challenge. — Peter Diamandis
The more people I meet, the farther out of my own little world I go, the more I see that we are all alike. And there isn't one of us who can afford to pick up the rock in the glass house. — Susan Powter
I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness. I've always said I hold him responsible for that. — Jack Layton
I think we as a country have definitely got to do better when it comes to housing people of all backgrounds. Not only can the less fortunate afford housing but fewer people of all kinds can afford it. — CeCe Winans
I belong to the givers. I want to give a little happiness even if I haven’t had much for myself. Music has enriched my life and, hopefully - through me, a little - the public’s. If anyone left an opera house feeling more happy and at peace, I achieved my purpose. — Maria Callas
What you believe in the privacy of your thoughts and what you do in the privacy of your home or house of worship is your business. What you do in the public realm is our collective business. — Gad Saad
As the American public continues to focus more intensely on illegal immigration and securing the nation's borders, the number of members of the House Immigration Reform Caucus continues to grow. — Virgil Goode
I'm guess I'm up to about 70% of normal, which is a real relief. My doctor gave me clearance to go out in public again, so I've been able to go to the store and help out a little bit around the house. — Wil Wheaton
The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick. — Grace Metalious
I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities. — Sonia Sotomayor
Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control. — John Hume
Every morning our newspapers could read, 'More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.' How? The poor die in hospital wards that lack drugs, in villages that lack antimalarial bed nets, in houses that lack safe drinking water. They die namelessly, without public comment. Sadly, sad stories rarely get written. — Jeffrey Sachs
For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. — Pete Hamill
The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs. — Phil Donahue
Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God. — George Washington
They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house. — Langston Hughes
The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid. — Winston Churchill
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors. — John Betjeman
When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - look decrepit within a year or two of their construction. — Milton Friedman
To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I'm very low-key. I don't really blend in, so it's difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it's a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home. — Dwayne Johnson
I miss the banter with friends and family, which more often than not takes place within the confines of a decent public house. So I miss the pubs. — Sayings
Though they control scores of industrial, commercial, mining and tourist corporations, not one bears the name Rothschild. Being private partnerships, the family houses never need to, and never do, publish a single public balance sheet, or any other report of their financial condition. — Frederic Morton
When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps — William J. Clinton
Houses! I hate houses. I like public places. Houses break your heart. — Jane Bowles
we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system. — Barbara Ehrenreich
In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. — Stephen Gardiner
Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and the spiritual, for they are inseparably connected. — Virginia Woolf
From the moment I leave my house or my hotel room, the public owns me. The public made Alice Cooper and I can't imagine ever turning my back on my fans. — Alice Cooper
Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care, so many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we've got a lot of work to do. — Ai-jen Poo
Hillary Clinton's a highly intelligent woman, hard-working, she's dedicated her life to public service, but unfortunately, she does not have a track record of accomplishment or transparency. ... She's not the woman for the White House. — Carly Fiorina
Borrow a child and get on welfare.
Borrow a child and stay in the house all day with the child,
or go to the public park with the child, and take the child
to the welfare office and cry and say your man left you and
be humble and wear your dress and your smile, and don't talk
back. — Susan Griffin
For some of us it seems like yesterday when Ike was in the White House, the U.S. Senate censured Joe McCarthy, and the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that racial segregation in public school was unconstitutional. — Malcolm Forbes
Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, He's fit for public authority. — Sophocles
Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages? — Virginia Woolf
Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I accept that it was a mistake to allow distinctions to be blurred between my professional responsibilities and my personal loyalties to a friend. Mr Speaker, I am sorry for this. I have apologised to the Prime Minister, to the public, and, at the first opportunity available, to the House. — Liam Fox
No outward doors of a man's house can in general be broken open to execute any civil process; though in criminal cases the public safety supersedes the private. — William Blackstone
I cherish the creation of public space and services, especially health, housing and the comprehensive education system which dared to give so many of us ideas 'above our station.' — Frances O'Grady
House and Senate Republicans are now united in adopting earmark bans. We hope President Obama will follow through on his support for an earmark ban by pressing Democratic leaders to join House and Senate Republicans in taking this critical step to restore public trust. — John Boehner
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. — John Prescott
You know I have been issued a public urination pass by the city because of my condition. Unfortunately, my little brother ran out of the house with it this morning. Him and his friends are probably peeing all over the city. — Jerry Seinfeld
Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather together for recreation, education, and inspiration - a blessed trinity worthy of public support. — Eleanor Robson Belmont
I was only allowed only to watch public television until I was 12 years old. I would come home from friends's houses with a list of demands. 'OK, We have all the wrong cereals. You guys are asleep on the job. — Allison Williams
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. — Kurt Vonnegut
We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, but God did. — Richard Baker
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