The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing costs and stagnant wages, slightly more than half of all poor renting families in the country spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing costs, and at least one in four spends more than 70 percent.
Matthew Desmond
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The church should lead on issues of housing and affordability.
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If we are going to spend the bulk of our public dollars on the affluent - at least when it comes to housing - we should own up to that decision and stop repeating the canard about this rich country being unable to afford more.
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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
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Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa.
Tom Vilsack
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Once the housing market begins to recover, I would phase out the mortgage tax deduction.
Joshua A. Tucker
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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
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The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps, housing subsidies and the like - if their income goes up.
Thomas Sowell
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Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit.
Nicola Sturgeon
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The collapse of the housing bubble sent the world spiraling into recession. The collapse of the energy and commodity bubble threatens to be just as damaging.
Kelly Evans
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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
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Until we stem the housing correction, until the biggest part of that is behind us and we have more stability in housing prices, we're going to continue to have turmoil in the financial markets.
Henry Paulson
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If you want to decrease housing costs in Norway, the most important thing is to build more.
Erna Solberg
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I have been looking at a number of things in affordable housing because I do know that the price of housing has gone up a lot.
David Ige
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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
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The government has a right - the government and the people of the United States have a right to run the programs of the United States. Health, welfare, housing - all these things.
Keith Ellison
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Following an extended boom in housing, the demand for homes began to weaken in mid-2005. By the middle of 2006, sales of both new and existing homes had fallen about 15 percent below their peak levels. Homebuilders responded to the fall in demand by sharply curtailing construction.
Ben Bernanke
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Congress created Fannie Mae in 1938 and Freddie Mac in 1970. For many years, these institutions prudently pursued their core mission of enhancing the availability of credit for housing.
Jerome Powell
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Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.
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Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing assistance. The opposite is true.
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Help for first time buyers and other housing market measures will be welcome.
Andy Sawford
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So, we're saying, if we can give developers and builders incentives to cut down on the regulatory barriers that are faced in this country, then we might be able to address the needs of affordable housing.
Alphonso Jackson
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If we can afford food stamps and housing subsidies, why not gun stamps to help urban citizens survive the next Islamist assault?
Tom Tancredo
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