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It's a necessary evil. There's no question the more people in the area, the more stress there is on the environment, but the higher the fees on housing, the harder it is for people to buy homes.

Carol Whiteside

This project will become the hub of downtown with its easy access to public transportation, new housing and cultural activities.

Paul Marinelli

There has been a housing boom, but it is not a bubble. It is more like a soufflé with the air slowly leaking out.

Tapan Munroe

Valley Housing has done a lot of good for a lot of people. It would be a shame to lose the good that's been done.

Dan Beers

It's going to be a more complete circle. You'll deal with total housing cost and not just housing development.

Barb Anderson

I am angered at the extent of the housing shortage. [Politicians] have been spineless and despicable.

Jarvis Deberry

1,245 units of workforce housing.

Bill Klohn

We're now moving into the really big permanent housing phase.

Andrew Steer

The response to the housing crisis has been incoherent and fiscally wasteful.

Bruce Katz

It's important we don't let legislation hamstring or hinder the future of the U.S. housing market, which is one sixth of the U.S. economy.

Timothy Bitsberger

We have a housing crisis now and we need to get those monies invested.

Bonnie Neely

Housing authorities have never been more broke. Funds for public housing were not keeping pace with demand, even before Katrina.

Linda Couch

You have a lot of people here [in the United States] consuming housing wealth.

Thomas Skinner

The housing authority is in a difficult situation. We're criticized if we allow families to come back, we're criticized if we're doing our due diligence to ensure the units are hazard free and that they're safe.

Lori Moon

This will be the biggest attack on bad housing conditions that this part of south London has ever known.

Walter Allen

Most of it (housing) isn't listed, ... It's people in the community. It's really more who you know.

Diane Brown

Like any vibrant economy, the house prices have gone up. But more than that, we're facing a bit of a housing crunch.

Linda Wallace

We just couldn't work everything out. We have no on-campus housing available.

Dave Maggard

The residents who live in this kind of housing are homeowners of the mobile homes.

Robert Simmons

Even though it is very early in the year, the Alabama housing market in 2006 is ahead of the market at the same time last year.

Leonard Zumpano

You need housing in this area.

John Wilmot

Housing starts for December were at an all-time high... and half the new housing market in the country is in the U. S. South.

Pete Stewart

There's still a huge demand for housing of all kinds that far exceeds our capacity to meet it.

Mike Dwight

Housing starts across Canada have now been above the 200,000 level for 29 consecutive months.

Bob Dugan

I see this as a banner year for affordable housing.

Jaimie Ross

Housing is the second-most important concern of our people after jobs.

Amos Masondo

It is actually permanent emergency housing.

Marianne Cusato

Don't give them just a blanket and a bowl of soup. Give them housing and services, and eventually that person goes out and gets a job.

Philip Mangano

There is no doubt Roger was controversial. He provided housing to people who may not have been able to find housing elsewhere.

Andrew Harvey

Affordable housing transcends our ability to zone it into existence.

Don Charles

Interest rates aren't as critical since half their customers pay cash for their purchases. That protects them a little bit from housing cycles.

James Mcbride

With housing being so rare these days, it's better to try and keep them where they are.

Howie Carroll

You've heard location, location, location? Well, affordable housing is subsidy, subsidy, subsidy.

Jamie Ross

At present, no decline in housing construction is evident in the data.

Michael Bazdarich

We'll in essence lose a little bit of tax revenue, but the housing and buildings will be improved.

John Siira

People without jobs have to go through the standard housing process.

James Mcintyre

Housing is going to be the issue because we don't have an overabundance of work-force housing available in our state anyway.

Toni Jennings

Why are we in the housing business? That was the foundation in which all the other recommendations rest.

Michael Coleman

He made a mistake. All of us make mistakes. But it was not his intention to harm the housing authority.

Larry Hardaway

What you have is attractive new product in areas where you can't buy homes for less than $340,000. It represents affordable housing.

Byron Moger

The data are consistent with very gradual cooling in the housing market.

John Shin

At that time, Brigham City was a town of 5,000 people. There simply wasn't enough housing.

Kathleen Bradford

The housing market only has a smaller impact to any slowdown in the economy.

Yasutoshi Nagai

I think we as a country have definitely got to do better when it comes to housing people of all backgrounds. Not only can the less fortunate afford housing but fewer people of all kinds can afford it.

Cece Winans

At the end of the day, people who have safe, decent, affordable housing are a lot less at risk.

Patrick Markee

We hope faith-based agencies and community service organizations will help out in helping people find housing.

Jim Homstad

More than 12,000 Floridians have successfully found better and more permanent housing solutions for themselves and their families.

Dasha Castillo

The Fed should be cautious about over-tightening and causing too much of a downturn in the housing market.

Glenn Haberbush

The housing market just refuses to stop.

Lawrence Yun

The home sector is very exciting. They've got huge unmet demand for housing.

Mark Madden

There are a lot of different things going on than there was ... People talk about a bubble in housing, but I think there is a lot more bubbleness in oil prices.

James Paulsen

When I was at the Ministry of Housing, I set the objective of expanding (settlements in) outlying areas.

Yitzhak Levy

I've thrown it out as an idea. They could build four or five stories of affordable housing, and they pay us for air rights. Hopefully, this will bear fruit.

Jack Lamb

Dilapidated housing is a huge concern.

Linda Wood

We've been relying on the housing activity for our economic growth.

Scott Anderson

The Fed is not done hiking rates, and that should favor the dollar. Given the housing data we're getting today, that's supporting our view.

Niels From

It makes it very hard to find a decent housing unit.

Joe Wincze

Some of it is housing. But ... earnings and a couple of companies saying things are going to be a little better than expected are what's got this market trading higher.

Nick Angilletta

There's not a big market out here for housing. You don't find what you need, but you find what you can handle and be comfortable in.

Deron Washington

She hasn't done anything to qualify for affordable housing. It's our belief that while this is going through, someone who does qualify isn't getting in.

Tom Mccabe

Everyone's trying to put a housing angle on almost any investment trend.

John Caldwell

Co-ops are one of the few affordable housing options for students that want life close to campus.

Alan Robinson

We need to be assured by the federal government that we'll get this impact aid ... We need to have assurance that even with housing, impact aid continues.

Terry Link

If they plan to stay, we will help them look for jobs and housing.

Cathy Curran

Housing starts would be much much higher if they could find the people to build the homes.

Delos Smith

There has not been much law on this yet. The concern is that if it becomes extremely commonplace, it could significantly restrict the ability of these folks to obtain housing. Someone would have to challenge it.

Alan Weinstein

The housing market is fading.

Lyle Gramley

If there was one thing I could see put behind us right now, it is the controversy at the housing authority.

Robert Barnett

We think for all of 2006, we will see a slowing of price growth in housing prices.

Walter Molony

Developers are going to take advantage of rundown blue-collar housing and turn it into white collar.

Blanche Evans

We're not just providing shelter, we're providing housing.

Todd Swindall

We are housing a lot of people in churches and community centers.

Felix Wai

After I get my orders, we'll look for housing.

Robert Stewart

It's fascinating that housing was No. 1 in all three of those categories.

Carl Guardino

Weak U.S. housing data fueled concern of a U.S. economic slowdown, triggering buying of bonds.

Tsutomu Kawasaki

The big deal for us is housing stock. I think New Orleans is going to be very much a smaller city than it was.

Michael Olivier

I see a lot of Greenspan in this housing boom. He encouraged low interest rates.

Stephen Happel

I'm not surprised affordable housing popped up as a priority (in the assessment).

Mike Stanfield

She lost her housing because of him. That only deepened the illness in a way that is very sad.

Teresa Caffese

We've made it pretty simple. There are two basic aspects: One is housing and the other is food.

Phil Frame

Looking ahead, 2006 and 2007 should be strong on the economic side, and the housing market should be, too.

Jack Inselmann

The time has passed for emergency housing.

Michael Spencer

It would basically preclude a lot of new housing from being built in Oakland.

Mike Ghielmetti

There have been very little teeth in the affordable housing laws.

Andrew Powell

It's going to change the appearance of that part of the road. It's an area that's very beautiful, and not an area that we think should have a multiunit housing development on it.

Jane Wells

We don't have any written response from the Housing Commission.

Maria Miller

They'll have to look at affordable housing. It would be good if they could do it on site.

Dan Trescott

This is an exciting proposal. We have not found a comparable project with housing above (it) in a (similar-size) community.

David Buck

The general picture from the housing market has not changed.

George Buckley

Our role is to provide housing. It does not change. If it changes, then we go out of business. That was our pre-Carver Estates demolition goal, and that will be our post-Carver Estates demolition goal.

Dorothy Ellington

This was an emergency housing program. It's winding down.

Karen Szulczewski

There's a great need for housing for women, and women with children.

Patrick Murray

There are some signs that the housing party is ending.

Christopher Thornberg

There has been some spotty signs of a cooling in the broader housing market.

Joseph Abate

That was the time of the ghettos. You read about the black ghetto on the east side of Cleveland, and the crime and the poor housing conditions.

Bill Myers

Unless you do something aggressive (about housing) soon, you're going to get into trouble deeper and deeper, faster and faster.

Michael Kinsley

This lending has been lucrative to banks here. The housing market has been vibrant.

Jack Phelps

We're trying to rewrite the ordinances to allow for modular housing in areas where it's not now allowed.

Jeffrey Jacobs

The housing decision is the biggest. That's the single largest area that people overspend in.

Christopher Jones

Housing ... is an undeniable core inflation hot spot.

Warren Lovely

We don't do anything that doesn't include affordable housing and we don't plan to.

Dan Barwick

The Fair Housing Act felt that any community that wanted to exclude families with children would have to meet a high threshold.

Bryan Greene

Put an immediate chill on the housing markets and reverse almost a century of housing policy.

Jerry Howard

Land is getting harder and harder to find. We're going to have to do more infill projects and more urban development. But the demand [for housing] is always going to be there.

Steve Ruffner

As long as low rates remain, housing is going to continue to do better than expected.

Gregory Gieber

There's no signal that the housing market is really deteriorating. That red flag isn't there.

Pierre Ellis

The high pay for construction reflects the hot housing market.

Charlotte Yee

It's a huge infusion of funds and I would like to see the funds go directly into affordable housing and homelessness.

Peter Simpson

What we've found is the biggest challenge is not helping people get housing, it's helping people stay in that housing.

Luella Sanders

We have established that Ms McCarthy was entitled to housing benefit which she has never claimed so we have reinstated her tenancy.

David Lambert

The real problem is we're squeezing out affordable housing, and that's where our greatest need is.

Tom Maeser

It cannot be used for student housing, ... A lot of landlords aren't interested.

Glenn Anderson

It's fair to say we're looking for a soft landing in the housing market.

Michael Bazdarich

I'd say housing is overpriced, but whether or not that implies that prices are going to crash is a different question.

Alan Gin

No one agency has all the resources. We won't rest until everybody finds a permanent housing solution.

Jim Homstad

We feel they will be able to get out into the community to find housing. Many of them have already been leaving.

David Wade

We are actually trying to develop a new method of getting affordable housing through higher density.

Jeremy Graves

The cornerstone of safe, stable neighborhoods is good housing.

Anthony Williams

The church is the center of the black community, ... The church provides day care, education and housing to African-Americans. Republicans realize that the government cannot do it all, so they want to give more control back to the churches.

Adam Hunter

You're going to see very soft numbers for employment and significant ripple effects from housing.

Asha Bangalore

Manufacturing is in a hole but the housing market is pretty buoyant.

Michael Dicks

This is one of three rooms we're housing folks.

Will Wynn

Even with interest rates going up, housing markets will remain healthy going into 2006.

Derek Holt

We know we have a housing crisis. We know our housing programs are excellent. We have the money to use for housing, which is dedicated for housing, so this should be our banner year.

Jaimie Ross

If I had more influence, ... 100 percent of the housing (on Fort Ord) would be affordable.

Sam Farr

It means that the housing market is seriously slowing. It's not great news for the economy.

Andrew Seibert

We don't have a worker shortage, we have a housing shortage. Our rooms are our product, and we can't tie up our product.

Bill Langkopp

The housing numbers were softer so we continue to grind higher here.

Bill Kirby

I think they're seeing it. I think people are seeing the enormous cost of housing versus what people make.

Connie Pascale

The default zoning for virtually everything in town is housing. We need to examine whether we've gone too far.

Larry Klein

Housing prices cooling off, or even declining, is one potential risk.

Amy Clark

We're trying to bring housing down to a manufacturing corridor ... there's always some challenges.

Paul Schmidt

That's our biggest challenge out here because, as you know, they are taking down the affordable housing complexes and they certainly aren't building any new ones.

Cindy Funkhouser

We see a flattening of housing starts and the beginning of a cooling process.

David Seiders

[When it comes to the current state of housing,] there are some signs of a slowdown, but they are very ambiguous signs, ... It's not clear, and it's not overwhelming.

Nicolas Retsinas

It's one of the issues with the housing bubble. It continues until those people who are not getting their money are foreclosed on.

Robert Watts

There is some old housing stock in the Coeburn area that really needs attention, so that is probably where the work will be done.

Paul Kuczko

We expect them to create a dynamic and diverse neighborhood that will be a magnet for housing consumers who are looking for something special.

Sam Hall

The news will be frowned on by the Reserve Bank, which has yet to see a sustained easing in the housing market.

Tim Bowring

We have the ability, without a lot of investment, to get new classroom space and housing.

Mark Weiss

I believe that the housing market has moved from a boil to a simmer.

Richard Yamarone

This is a brand-new program receiving grant funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Kate Barton

Housing starts dovetail with the stronger outlook on the economy.

John Beerling

I think we have the potential. There are some great housing areas currently being revitalized.

Joe Gillie

I think it will be considerably more. The way housing is, it doesn't matter who you market it to.

Stephen Hughes

You want the wage base and the job base to adjust to the housing reality.

Susan Wachter

People who live in higher-cost housing markets are really hurting.

Jay Speer

There's a big demand for information on Section 8 [low-income] housing assistance and a big concern with rents going up.

David Mendoza

I would say land is a crisis. Absolutely a crisis. And it's just putting affordable housing out of reach.

Rosemary Walker

The fact that the housing numbers were lower than expected, that is a red flag. The U.S. economy may begin to slow.

Matthew Lifson

There is plenty of strength still in housing.

Josh Shapiro

This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put affordable housing anywhere it can be.

Burt Aaronson

It guarantees downtown will have only luxury or subsidized housing, which ... will not make a healthy neighborhood.

Kate Joncas

In areas where commuting is an issue, housing located in the inner areas will appreciate at a higher rate.

Walter Carpenter

It's going to be an enormous housing boom.

Arthur Sterbcow

If you don't have the resources, getting housing relocation assistance has proven to be problematic.

Sheila Crowley

We don't get preferred housing, I wish that we did.

Josh Beekman

There were 1,000 new housing units built in four years.

Jeff Hatling

It's tempting to use this number as evidence that the housing boom continues - but it's probably an aberration.

Phillip Neuhart

It's always been a challenge for students to find affordable housing in this area.

Bruce Cook

If they don't have access to a computer, they can come to the Housing Authority and we will help them. We're hoping people take the opportunity to go online and fill it out there.

Tony Caldwell

Is tying your fortune to the fortune of the housing market.

Michael Hutchison

It comes down to housing. The College has long been concerned about the balance of the students on campus.

Stephen Hall

I don't think housing is shooting up anymore, but nor is it plunging.

James O'sullivan

There's not enough housing in New Orleans to handle the people who want to move back.

Scott Barnett

Students will have more permanent housing. It's always nice to get them out of the portables.

Marilyn Gilbert

Scattered housing makes for a better community. A healthy community will have diversity.

Mike O'donnell

The market has slowed a little bit, but the housing industry is still booming. We're still building homes.

Joe Sinagra

If one were looking for additional weakness in the economy, it's not going to come from housing. We are seeing the economy generate a fair amount of momentum.

Gerald Zukowski

I'm pushing hard for affordable housing. I'm encouraging developers to bring in projects at a lower cost to locals.

Mayor Michael Amabile

We have to provide them housing and medical treatment.

Michael Monks

The housing market was on a tear, and complexity just grew. There were new requirements we'd never dreamed of because of new clients.

Mayur Raichura

Lower-income housing has been a problem, and it's only getting worse.

David Church

As long as rates continue to stay low, housing is going to stay strong.

William Emerson

It's very important that we fund that and make sure that nobody touches it except for low-cost housing.

Sen. Evelyn Lynn

There's an enormous amount of plowing gaming revenues back into housing, economic diversification and so on.

Jonathan Taylor

As we see more and more investors moving inland, we're seeing a decrease in affordable housing.

Tom Maeser

There are government assistance programs, but they have a diminishing influence on the housing market.

Nicolas Retsinas

Think about it. The 'Big One' hits San Francisco tomorrow and ruins most of the housing. Oakland is going to be busy, right?

Arthur Sterbcow

Everyone has the same opportunity to get the housing of their choice (under the law). We need to develop new strategies to combat discrimination.

Carl Harris

We thought housing would be falling away as business activity picked up. But what you have now is the two overlapping.

Tom Potiowsky

We're not going to fix housing costs, but we can stress how can we help you move here, if you're interested.

Ben Stone

There's far greater demand now in Kent County for housing than there is current supply and that has driven the price up.

Charles Martin

Housing is a question of the will. It's not rocket science.

Connie Pascale

Housing is expensive, and people are not going to risk making it more expensive by doing things the codes and laws won't allow.

Michael Reynolds

I came to the conclusion that under the current circumstances, it would be in the best interest of the Housing Authority if I left at this point.

Peter Lopez

Housing is a huge retention issue for the military.

Bereket Selassie

You talk to any businessperson, and they'll tell you they're concerned that there is no affordable housing (in Los Angeles).

Jack Kyser

The days of the housing boom are over. It doesn't appear to be this burst bubble that everybody was afraid of, but it's certainly not this growth industry.

Glenworth Ramsay

The downside of that is that it decreases affordable housing.

Sean Rogan

If the family can afford to stay around to get their kids in kindergarten, they have probably found a way to do the housing thing.

Scott Patterson

This apartment building accounts for more than half of our housing complaints.

Dennis Mcbride

A lot of it circles around poverty and not being able to afford housing.

Steve Weil

If sales prices come down a little bit, it will open the doors for more buyers to come into the housing market.

Bob Moulton

Housing appears to be in real good shape.

John Norquist

Assuring there is adequate housing for the work force is an economic issue. You cannot have jobs and economic diversity unless you have housing.

James Cronin

We're working hard to make the housing department more efficient and provide more affordable housing. Those efforts aren't diminished. But we're complying with what the Housing and Urban Development department has said.

Frank Michel

The day that municipalities are barred from enforcing housing codes will mark the end of suburbia as we know it.

Steve Levy

It is truly important for us that campus housing enhance the experience the students have at UTD.

Michael Coleman

The better housing you have, the easier it's going to be to get better players.

Pete Costanza