Subsidized Housing Quotes

What we're seeing is that even in high poverty neighborhoods, the average cost of renting is quickly approaching the total income of welfare recipients and low wage workers.

There is a strong need for constructing low income houses in the province, for which the Punjab government has planned a programme of providing houses to low income strata.

The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.

I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

I grew up in Burbank - but not the Burbank of valet parking and TV studios. In the late 1950s, there was a small apartment complex on Elmwood Avenue that rented mostly to families on welfare. I lived there from age 3 to 11 and again from 14 to 18 with my mother, Shirley, and my younger sister, Toni.

I think that there will always be a need for Housing and Urban Development.

A lot of unemployed families were moved to Hastings, and places were built for them. They're communities of unemployed people. It's been difficult dealing with that.

Like most people, my parents were only able to fulfil their dreams because there was support. A council home so they could save for a deposit to buy a home of their own. Fantastic local state schools where my own daughters go now. Affordable university places and good quality apprenticeships.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.

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

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.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

[Referring to young mothers:] You've got to be poor, or unwed, or incompetent to get something from the government. Otherwise you get nothing.

I was on subsidized housing for many years before my financial situation changed. I quickly found myself in a new economic structure and, frankly, knew little about how to handle my money.

Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.

Housing vouchers are a vital lifeline for many people I know in New Orleans and around the country, including struggling artists.

All of my childhood, we were on welfare. My mom received Aid for Families with Dependent Children - welfare. Without that, we wouldn't have had subsidized housing. Most of my childhood, we had a two-bedroom apartment, but eventually we got into the projects, where we had four bedrooms. That was great.

Fair and affordable housing is a basic right for all New Yorkers and all Americans.

In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving.

I grew up on a council estate when I was younger.

Gordon Ramsay grew up in a tourist town, Stratford-Upon-Avon, but in a part tourists don't visit - a council estate: a concrete bunker subsidized by the local government, synonymous with deprivation and blight.

I was brought up on a council estate. I know what it's like to be poor.

The ancillary aspect of every British city now is the council estate.

For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all heard the stories.