Public Housing Quotes:

Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.

- Carolyn McCarthy

topic: Opportunity, Homeless, Program, Public Housing, Housing

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

- Marc Lamont Hill

topic: Past, Government, Prison, Public Housing

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

- Jewel

source: "Jewel Talks Singing Competitions, Silly Rumors For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Erin Clements, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

topic: Men, People, Gone, Public Housing

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

source: Source: www.progressive.org

topic: Affluence, Lifetime, Squalor, Public Housing, Public Sector

I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

- Sonia Sotomayor

source: President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

topic: Two, Community, Assistants, Bronx, Prosecuting

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. We couldn't do it, butGod did.

- Richard Baker

topic: New Orleans, Hurricanes, Hateful, Hurricane Katrina, Public Housing

I don't know whether it's the finest public housing in America or the crown jewel of the American penal system.

- William J. Clinton

source: Clinton, William J. (1994). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993”, p.1931, Best Books on

topic: America, Jewels, Presidential, Crown Jewels, Public Housing

we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.

- Barbara Ehrenreich

source: Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

topic: America, Prison, Program, Public Housing

I just thought someone has to figure out how to break through that barrier and create a narrative for a black super hero story to unfold at the same scale as something like Star Wars. Rythm Mastr is about producing a narrative of a hero engaged in a struggle as complicated as those other stories. The catalyst for it was the beginning of the demolition of public housing in Chicago.

- Kerry James Marshall

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Super Hero, Demolition, Public Housing

Public housing projects as well as private landlords are free to deny housing to people with criminal records. In fact, you don't even have to be convicted. You can be denied housing - or your family evicted - just based on an arrest.

- Michelle Alexander

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: People, Criminals, Records, Public Housing

When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union - like public housing in the United States - look decrepit within a year or two of their construction...

- Milton Friedman

source: Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman (1990). “Free to Choose: A Personal Statement”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Years, Two, Looks, Public Housing, Decrepit

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

- Jan Schakowsky

topic: Illinois, Years, Community, Primary Care, Public Housing

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never made more than $20,000 a year, and I grew up in a family that lost health insurance. So I was scarred at a young age with understanding what it was like to watch my parents lose access to the American dream.

- Howard Schultz

topic: Dream, New York, Dad, Public Housing, Access

One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now seen, and which are widely regarded as unappealing. They'll write, "It's going to be beautiful, we're going to have a town of 1,000 stone buildings that are all identical." And we as modern readers think, we've seen that; that's bad Soviet architecture or a public housing project. Nobody fantasizes about living there.

- Christine Jennings

topic: Beautiful, Reading, Writing, Public Housing

One of the things for me, as a biographer, that is so significant is for Eleanor Roosevelt - the child who never had a home of her own, who lives in her grandmother's home and then goes to school and then gets married and lives in her mother-in-law's homes, and then in public housing (like the White House and the State House) - housing becomes for Eleanor Roosevelt the most important issue.

- Blanche Wiesen Cook

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Mother, Children, Home, Public Housing, Biographers

As the data from the past decade clarify, there is no evidence that poverty causes crime but a great deal of evidence that crime causes poverty. By aligning themselves against the police, against commonsense tactics like stop and frisk, against metal detectors in public housing, against swift and certain punishment, and for a broad array of legal protections for accused criminals, liberals helped to aggrieve the lives of the poor and society as a whole.

- Mona Charen

topic: Past, Data, Punishment, Stop And Frisk, Metal Detectors

Ive introduced eight bills to fight for support for our small businesses and ensure we get funding to rebuild public housing - among other things.

- Cedric Richmond

topic: Fighting, Eight, Support, Public Housing

When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly...When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Country, Moving, Gun, Limiting Freedom, Personal Freedom

By laying the groundwork for a system centered on home ownership rather than the public housing popular in Europe, the New Deal made possible the great postwar housing boom that populated the Sun Belt and boosted millions of Americans into the middle class, where, ironically, they often became Republicans.

- Jonathan Alter

source: Jonathan Alter (2007). “The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope”, p.284, Simon and Schuster

topic: Home, Europe, Class, Groundwork, Public Housing

The fundamental fact in the lives of the poor in most parts of America is that the wages of common labor are far below the benefits of AFDC, Medicaid, food stamps, public housing, public defenders, leisure time and all the other goods and services of the welfare state.

- George Gilder

topic: America, Wages, Fundamentals, Defenders, Food Stamps

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

topic: Believe, House, Pounds, Discounts, Public Housing

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Moving, Politics, Limits, Limiting Freedom, Personal Freedom

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

- John Hume

topic: Ghetto, Order, People, Public Housing, Housing