#housing

If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man — and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages — it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#cost #housing #life #life

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. ↗

— William Baldwin

#affordable housing #becomes #causes #completely #demand

We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#believe #big #big enough #each #enough

President Obama has basically avoided or not done any attempt to intervene in any positive way in the housing market. I think in the financial crisis that's been a shame. ↗

— Glenn Hubbard

#attempt #avoided #basically #been #crisis

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages. ↗

— David Korten

#even #experience #faster #housing #increased

Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It's all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political. ↗

— Evangelos Venizelos

#also #crisis #greece #greek #housing

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. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

#cost #down #goes #housing #industry

The impact of the downturn is starting to feel very real. House prices and the housing market have been taking the knock for some time and that's affecting people. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#been #downturn #feel #house #housing

Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done. ↗

— John Prescott

#done #down #find #housing #how

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

— John Prescott

#done #first #giving #housing #i