Erna Solberg Quotes

I strongly believe supply is the best way to address housing affordability.

There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.

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.

I am very open to looking at potential tax changes to improve housing affordability.

There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away.

Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

Basically, New York housing is designed by formula, with lots of restrictions.

It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.

Help for first time buyers and other housing market measures will be welcome.

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.

A home is a home, and excess supply leads to prices falling.

Local authorities face huge housing issues with demands outstripping supply many times over; the only way those in housing need can be housed is in the private sector.

You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.

Rents should begin to decelerate as the demand for owner-occupied housing stabilizes and the supply of rental units increases.

Kill the Rent Hog and the Interest Hog.

The truth is that the dream of homeownership is out of reach for too many Americans.

So much value has been lost in the housing market that people are now buying. If there's any activity in the housing market, it's because values have plummeted to such depths that the 47% can now afford to live in a government-purchased house, or something like that.

Housing is a social issue: how we live and where we live.

The average person that lives in Sydney, if they want to buy a house in Sydney, that shouldn't be out of reach for them.

We are asking the question: What makes the most sense for public-private partnerships for affordable housing.

New York should be a place where everyone can afford to live.

I think it's not just a matter of building more houses, more flats. We need to have the right policies. I want people to be able to own their flats.

I do know that homelessness is related to housing, and we haven't been producing housing in the numbers that our community requires - a lot of the escalating costs of housing is related to the fact that supply is way short than demand.

By scrapping the government's centrally dictated density targets we'll ensure that the right type of new homes are built where they're needed, ending the glut of one- and two-bedroom flats.

I have the ability and the will to lead San Francisco in building more housing. Without it, people like me who grew up in San Francisco, and people who came here for the values we embrace will simply not be able to stay.