“The idea is to move people from shelters that they are in now to some kind of temporary housing until we can work out some kind of long-term housing solutions.

They are going to have to find immediate work, immediate housing, immediately get their kids into school and that probably will change the demographics of the region.

Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.

I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.

Many people in Nixon’s camp had genuine faith in affirmative action. It wasn’t designed to fail, but it wasn’t designed to succeed, either; the intent behind it was not rooted in a desire to help...

He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incident he had never quite overcome.Langdon’s aversion to closed spaces was by no means debilitating, but it had always...

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

All my life I had thought that if you worked hard you would be rewarded. If you worked your ass off, there would be some reward for you. But now I knew that the reward...

The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that’s very nice.

If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man — and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages — it must be shown that...

It was the American middle class. No one’s house cost more than two or three year’s salary, and I doubt the spread in annual wages (except for the osteopath) exceeded more than five thousand dollars....

Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.

Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.

Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.

A bachelor, a studio, those were the names for that kind of apartment. Separate entrance it would say in the ads, and that meant you could have sex, unobserved.

Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage – it’s like the bedrock of the housing system – is critical.

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.