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There is plenty of housing - for the rich. But a series of outrageous policies ensure that it remains inaccessible to the poor.
We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism.
For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.
If we can afford food stamps and housing subsidies, why not gun stamps to help urban citizens survive the next Islamist assault?
Voters must feel that that the burden of new housing is being shared equally and not falling disproportionately on any one group.
Housing vouchers are a vital lifeline for many people I know in New Orleans and around the country, including struggling artists.
I don't think we can fix poverty without fixing housing, and I don't think we can address housing without understanding landlords.
I've been through quite a few hurricanes. I worked in North Carolina, where there's a housing development whose name was Landfall.
I'm going to do whatever I have to do to help a New Yorker, whether it's a girl on the street or a tenant in a housing development.
Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing assistance. The opposite is true.
Presidential money is almost like the housing bubble. It's growing at such an astronomical rate, you think it can't get any bigger.
Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventually snap upward very powerfully.
We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people's lives and help them achieve the American dream.
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.
You could say that bad typography brought us the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war, the housing crisis and a good number of other things.
What most Americans don't realize is a lot of the challenges we're struggling with today are the result of conscious housing policies.
Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political.
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.
As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there.
I grew up on Section 8 housing, food stamps, welfare, and dealing with social services. I never had a Christmas. I never had a birthday.
In many cities, it's become popular to hate 'gentrifiers,' rich people who move in and drive up housing prices - pushing everyone else out.
We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan.
I'd hate to see new housing building accelerating while taking down buildings where there's 50 people living in rent-stabilized apartments.
For resident stability, I fully agree with the government's stance that stabilizing the housing market should be the first and foremost step.
I was a convicted felon. No one wanted to give me a job, I couldn't get any government assistance, and I couldn't get any housing assistance.
I think that's what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether it's education or housing.
As we double down on urgent issues of housing affordability, access, inequities and displacement, we must prioritize addressing climate change.
The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.
Incentives and infrastructure should encourage development and that development needs to contain the right types of housing in the right places.
We will never address the race-based, systemic barriers to health care, equal housing and education without investing in underserved communities.
Young mothers who apply for housing assistance in our nation's capital literally could be grandmothers by the time their application is reviewed.
A lot flows from the question: Is having decent, stable housing part of what it means to live in this country? And I think we should answer 'yes.'
We want councillors and MPs to be more closely involved in housing issues because this will help to strengthen local democracy and accountability.
I've introduced eight bills to fight for support for our small businesses and ensure we get funding to rebuild public housing - among other things.
When we talk about a city's cost of living, we don't mean food, transportation, or clothing, which cost about the same everywhere. We mean housing.
Montana is perfect for telecommuting because of the quality of life, because our housing prices in most communities are below the national average.
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books.
I was a little lacking in vision as mayor - I failed to understand the significance that housing and the revitalization of housing means for a city.
The movement toward a holistic approach to community development has been long in the making, but the housing crisis has motivated further progress.
Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
Cities around the United States do not have land use planning like we have in Oregon, and they are all struggling with issues like affordable housing.
In Sydney, we always have a deficiency of housing. So that's one good thing, which will cause real estate to keep going up. Not fast, but it'll go up.
In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised.
People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.
While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.
Every American has a right to food, housing, and health care - and we can afford to provide it if billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.