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For families to access affordable housing, they often need legal representation that takes their side against abusive landlords.

Nydia Velazquez

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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

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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

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In response to the recession, the Obama administration chose to emphasize costly, short-term fixes - ineffective stimulus programs, myriad housing programs that went nowhere, and a rush to invest in 'green' companies. As a consequence, uncertainty over policy - particularly over tax and regulatory policy - slowed the recovery.

Glenn Hubbard

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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

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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.

Emma Donoghue

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

Bill Ackman

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Our communities must demand dignified housing, satisfying jobs, and proper labor conditions; our educational system must be culturally relevant, multi-lingual, and teach our histories. Our value should not be determined by legal records.

Patrisse Cullors

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I tried all my life to make housing affordable. The more affordable the house, the more money I make.

Harry Triguboff

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A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.

Xenophon

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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

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In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

John Major

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I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.

Matthew Desmond

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We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

Matthew Desmond

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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

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Even six months later, they have not figured out how do we help the people from the area get housing.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

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Once you've acquired a criminal record, you can be discriminated against legally in employment, housing, and access to education and public benefits. You're relegated to a permanent second-class status, forever a 'criminal.' Inflicting this amount of unnecessary pain and suffering is not cheap.

Michelle Alexander

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I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

Desmond Tutu

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The person who has been convicted has served their time. Why would we continue to punish and exclude them from housing and jobs? Those are the primary areas that allow people to get their lives back on track.

Susan Burton

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I started school in public housing. My dad had a sixth-grade education.

Rick Scott

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Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

Mark Zandi

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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

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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

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Montana is perfect for telecommuting because of the quality of life, because our housing prices in most communities are below the national average.

Greg Gianforte

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