John Prescott Quotes

HUD's mission is to provide decency and sanitary housing for low and moderate income people in this country.

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.

I'm in full transparency here of "Yeah, I'm trying to find my financing."

There are too many African-Americans with too much money for us to have to go to anybody else for anything in terms of schools, in terms of scholarships, in terms of entrepreneurship, in terms of moving us along as a group to that place where we should be as a people.

I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.

I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.

And here where the fact that we've given over half a billion dollars to New York really plays a role, because New York has already made a lot of investments in the kinds of things which you'd expect to have as basic security.

I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.

I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows.

The more money Automattic makes, the more we invest into Free and Open Source software that belongs to everybody and services to make that software sing.

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.

Nobody leaves a hotel without getting a full measure of three months of rental assistance. So no one has been evicted - no one who's eligible has been evicted from a hotel without getting a significant amount of money to find - to pay for their rent.

If you really believe that you're making a difference and that you can leave a legacy of better schools and jobs and safer streets, why would you not spend the money? The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets - not to have a fair fight.

But the Americans have no extra money. They have their own problems. They can provide financial assistance for two, three, four, or six months at most.

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.

A ghetto can be improved in only one way; out of existence.

I helped my cousin get a HUD house. Well, if you didn’t help your cousin, who would you help?

The emphasis of the program should be changed from traditional publicly built slum based high rise projects to smaller units on scattered sites.

You cannot let men live like pigs …. We need not wait for the Millennium to get rid of the slum. We can do it now.

Housing traditionally is not viewed as a great investment. It takes maintenance; it depreciates. It goes out of style. All of those are problems. And there's technical progress in housing. So, new ones are better. So, why was it considered an investment? That was a fad.

I want to be known internationally as one of the most creative real estate developers in low-income communities. I want to be known as someone who actually promotes economic diversity and does a great job.

Most Americans think that the typical low - income family lives in public housing or gets housing assistance. The opposite is true.

Habitat for Humanity is making Cleveland better every day.