#housing

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#apartheid #been #conditions #experienced #housing

Quality, affordable housing is a key element of a strong and secure Iowa. ↗

— Thomas Vilsack

#affordable housing #element #housing #iowa #key

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

#charge #control #council #deliberately #ensure

In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion. ↗

— John Hume

#class #controlled #difficult #discriminatory #districts

I was born in a small suburb of Ilford in a rather nasty housing estate that my mother despised. She had grown up in the country, so when the war came and I was evacuated to Wales she thought I was much better off there. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#better off #born #came #country #despised

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

#communities #counter #decent #education #enough

The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#form #housing #known #look #modern

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ↗

— John Major

#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed

I am also committed to providing city employees with housing assistance. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#am #assistance #city #committed #employees

I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever! ↗

— Thomas Menino

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