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I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home. -- Gregory Meeks
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
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. -- Cedric Richmond
In addition to public housing, South Williamsburg is home to shabby artists' lofts like mine, apartments of Hasidic Jews, and one extremely tall, high-priced condo. -- Jami Attenberg
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. -- Jewel
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
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
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
I live in Brick Towers, a public housing project in Newark's Central Ward. I moved in when the projects were privately owned by a man who the residents and I believed was a grade A slumlord. -- Cory Booker
My - I grew up in - I grew up in public housing. My dad, for most of my life, worked for the post office, which was a terrific job to get because you couldn't lose your job. -- Lloyd Blankfein
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
We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, butGod did. -- Richard Baker
Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades -- Marc Lamont Hill
I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system. -- William J. Clinton
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
Ive introduced eight bills to fight for support for our small businesses and ensure we get funding to rebuild public housing - among other things. -- Cedric Richmond
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