The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control. – Mark Zandi
We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we’d have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing. – John Prescott
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. – Kate Brown
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
We’ve given more resources. On housing, we are now establishing a regional housing pot. – John Prescott
What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities big and small, and we don’t have the resources necessary to fill that gap. – Julian Castro
As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing. – Kushal Pal Singh
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 grew up playing with kids from Hurt Village, playing with kids from other housing projects, Lamar Terrace, because my grandmother lived in that particular area. So, I always wondered how I would have turned out if I would have lived in that particular given circumstance. – Katori Hall
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
Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventually snap upward very powerfully. – Roger Altman
The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing. – Patricia Hill Collins
Let’s do away with the Departments of Education, Energy Commerce, Housing and Urban Development. – Richard Mourdock
Even six months later, they have not figured out how do we help the people from the area get housing. – Stephanie Tubbs Jones
The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. – Stephen Gardiner
We will primarily focus on affordable housing, water supply and transport infrastructure, as these are critical for Mumbai. Infrastructure deficit is an issue in all urban areas. – Sharad Pawar
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
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
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
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
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
We must confront our own racism. Discriminatory housing and employment policies are nothing more than institutionalised racism. – Tariq Ramadan
One area in which we can be certain mass immigration has an effect is housing. More than one third of all new housing demand in Britain is caused by immigration. And there is evidence that without the demand caused by mass immigration, house prices could be 10% lower over a 20-year period. – Theresa May
There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away. – Tom Golisano