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Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. -- Sargent Shriver
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
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
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
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children. -- Hillary Clinton
Housing affects everything, and we continue to live in very, very segregated communities. -- Melissa Harris-Perry
I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development. -- Alphonso Jackson
Let's do away with the Departments of Education, Energy Commerce, Housing and Urban Development. -- Richard Mourdock
I also have picked a secretary for Housing and Human Development. Mel Martinez from the state of Florida. -- George W. Bush
Housing programs designed to help young families and senior citizens purchase homes should be available to people of all races, including African Americans. -- Loretta Lynch
If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices. -- Barack Obama
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. -- Henry Cisneros
In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship. -- Cory Booker
Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and home sales hit record levels from 2003 through 2005. -- Randy Neugebauer
We all know that housing prices are going up, but what most people don't realize is that this has become a family problem. Housing prices are rising twice as fast for families with kids. -- Amelia Warren Tyagi
I want a capital-earning democracy. Every man and woman a capitalist. Housing is the start. If you're a man or woman of property, you've got something. So every man a capitalist, and every man a man of property. -- Margaret Thatcher
Every Ontarian deserves to have a stable, affordable home. As we update our Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy, I want to hear your views on how we can make Ontario's housing system work better for you, your family, and your community. -- Ted McMeekin
The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic. -- Mark Zandi
Housing was ground zero for the Great Recession. Between early 2006 and Obama's inauguration in 2009, average house prices fell by a third across the country. In certain areas, including cities as diverse as Akron, Orlando and Las Vegas, house prices fell by more than half. -- Mark Zandi
Being kind to animals is not enough. Avoiding cruelty is not enough. Housing animals in more comfortable, larger cages is not enough. Whether we exploit animals to eat, to wear, to entertain us, or to learn, the truth of animal rights requires empty cages, not larger cages. -- Tom Regan
Housing associations have fingered the fact that they cannot use their assets as liquidity due to Bank of England rules unlike their continental equivalents. This has emerged to be one of the main bottlenecks to getting investment going in the U.K. It is a Bank of England issue. -- Vince Cable
The cause of homelessness is lack of housing. -- Jonathan Kozol
Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa. -- Tom Vilsack
Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa. -- Tom Vilsack
And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise. -- Franklin Raines
The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. -- Stephen Gardiner
So from the housing standpoint, steady as you go, I think, would be the best medicine. -- Franklin Raines
What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights. -- Glenn Beck
A considerable share of the world's population still cannot afford comfortable housing, education and quality health care. -- Vladimir Putin
Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families. -- Carolyn McCarthy
In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year. -- Jan Schakowsky
We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood. -- Gavin Newsom
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. -- Eric Cantor
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. -- Shaukat Aziz
If we are to succeed, we must recognize that the community redevelopment is not solely the rehabilitation of housing, or putting a mall in the business strips. -- Jane Byrne
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. -- Alvar Aalto
In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities. -- Spencer Bachus
So popular is the naval service the only embarrassment is that men volunteer so rapidly we have to work overtime to give them hardy, adequate housing and proper training. -- Josephus Daniels
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
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
Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens. -- Jesse Ventura
One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks. -- Janet Yellen
In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion. -- John Hume
The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California. -- Alice Rivlin
There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever. -- Conor Oberst
Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today. -- Randy Neugebauer
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote. -- Bayard Rustin
We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God. -- Duane Chapman
The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that too few investors - including all of the big investment banks - bet too heavily on the housing market in the years before 2007. -- James Surowiecki
If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing. -- Paul Farmer
Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle. -- James P. Hoffa
All over the world, social innovation is tackling some of the most pressing problems facing society today - from fair trade, distance learning, hospices, urban farming and waste reduction to restorative justice and zero-carbon housing. But most of these are growing despite, not because of, help from governments. -- Geoff Mulgan
There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the challenges facing our cities or to the housing crisis, but the two issues need to be considered together. From an urban design and planning point of view, the well-connected open city is a powerful paradigm and an engine for integration and inclusivity. -- Richard Rogers
A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you'll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you'll write screeds against philistine mass culture. -- Virginia Postrel
The Adversity Index was created by msnbc.com and Moody's Analytics to track the economic fortunes of states and metro areas. Each month, the Adversity Index uses government data on employment, industrial production, housing starts and home prices to label each area as expanding, at risk of recession, in recession or recovering. -- Bill Dedman
As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers. -- Simon Beaufoy
If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight. -- Michael Bloomberg
The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease - it's really linked to underlying societal issues such as poverty, inequity, lack of access to safe drinking water and housing. And these are all the things we focus on at CARE. -- Helene D. Gayle
You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest, boldest recovery package in history, right; the stimulus package, biggest ever; the financial rescue, absolutely comprehensive; a housing plan - that is incredible medicine for the economy. And we fully expect it to work. -- Christina Romer
I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream. -- Howard Schultz
If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker. -- Jamie Dimon
There are only two markets, ultraluxury and subsidized housing. -- Rafael Vinoly
The housing market will get worse before it gets better. -- James Wilson
...housing activity will remain healthy for some time to come. -- David Lereah
My policy is no stone throwing regardless of housing situation. -- Demetri Martin
If we allow more development, it will bring housing affordability. -- Harry Triguboff
I would guess that there's adequate low-income housing in the country. -- Dan Quayle
I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance. -- Thomas Menino
Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society. -- Zaha Hadid
Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs. -- Kerry Cohen
Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit. -- Nicola Sturgeon
Social housing, education, health, jobs and sustainable surroundings. Those are my priorities. -- Juan Manuel Santos
The mobile middle class gravitates to the cities where housing is affordable. -- Virginia Postrel
The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets. -- Richard A. Epstein
Help for first time buyers and other housing market measures will be welcome. -- Andy Sawford
Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing. -- Mark Zandi
Actually, high housing prices don't help the economy. They raise the cost of living. -- Michael Hudson
The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice. -- Zaha Hadid
I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday. -- Kenny Troutt
We lived in a housing project graced by the architectural style of Early Chicken Coop ... -- Clara Fraser
Typically cult groups target universities and colleges. Most likely those schools that maintain campus housing. -- Rick Ross
I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one. -- Eric Maskin
Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans. -- Nydia Velazquez
In fact, Donald [Trump] was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. -- Hillary Clinton
Hatred doesn't just hurt the people being hated, it hurts the people housing the hatred -- Aja Monet
Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction. -- Joshua A. Tucker
America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom. -- Elliott Abrams
In the typical economic recovery, a resurgent housing sector helps fuel reemployment and rising incomes. -- Ben Bernanke
If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone. -- Ken Livingstone
HIV-positive people can lose custody of their children, lose their housing, and face intimate partner violence. -- Sean Strub
Our soldiers and their families are benefiting. They deserve good, quality housing and they need it. -- Jim Walsh
The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments. -- Nicola Sturgeon
When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots. -- James K. Glassman
Its unfair to have cities where parking is free for cars and housing is expensive for people. -- Donald Shoup
We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism. -- Tariq Ramadan
We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness. -- Millard Fuller
For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords. -- Nydia Velazquez
HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country. -- Alphonso Jackson
The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies. -- Sheldon Richman
Child-care costs are now the largest family expenditure in much of America, even exceeding the cost of housing. -- Donald Trump
The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping. -- David Lereah
Major labels just lost their way. It's like the housing bubble. They lost a sense of the fundamentals. -- Win Butler
We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, butGod did. -- Richard Baker
I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever! -- Thomas Menino
Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades -- Marc Lamont Hill
The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices. -- Will Cuppy
I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home. -- Gregory Meeks
Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved. -- Vladimir Lenin
I tried all my life to make housing affordable. The more affordable the house, the more money I make. -- Harry Triguboff
Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases. -- Ben Bernanke
Some people, they got housing loans, and I think they're responsible for taking a loan they didn't qualify for? -- Jon Lovitz
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing. -- Patricia Hill Collins
We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We've had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing. -- Noel Gallagher
The drop in pending home sales is an affirmation that we are experiencing a modest slowing in the housing sector. -- David Lereah
If you're going to do a romantic comedy it was about housing it in something that we haven't seen before. -- George Clooney
The glue that kept the consumer market together the last few years was the wealth effect from the housing boom. -- Joel C. Rosenberg
In Britain, the centrally prescribed welfare to work system short-changes the young unemployed. Transport, housing and education are over centralised. -- David Miliband
If you think that the intifada in France is about housing, go and try covering the story wearing a yarmulka . -- Christopher Hitchens
A brick could be crushed into powder, like cocaine, and snorted to stimulate the previous highs of the housing market." -- Jarod Kintz

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