Famous Quotes & Sayings

Investments in affordable housing and community development represent an engine of economic and social wealth. For every one dollar spent on affordable housing, at least 10 are returned to the community in the form of increased equity to start new businesses and pay for higher education, job creation and stability, increased independence, and tax revenue creation and more engaged citizens.

In the Midwest, where homes are very affordable and where home prices have risen much slower than the national average, sales are more dependent on job growth in the overall economy.

I support any initiative designed to make healthy food more affordable and junk food less appealing.

Higher borrowing costs and rising prices have made home purchasing less affordable for many buyers and caused speculators to pull back.

John Fleming

By starting earlier and building consistent and dynamic messaging around these key categories, we want to show our customers that we have the holiday merchandise they want, when they want it, at the affordable prices they trust from Wal-Mart,

Jim Taylor

Housing can be made affordable if you insist on it.

Housing is seen as a commodity -- buy low, sell high. Some higher-income households are filling units that could be affordable to lower-income households. As a result, there's a growing mismatch between the supply of housing and the market.

Joe Gray

The land trust is a tool we're using to ensure there isn't a lot of displacement as the city continues to grow. The community will always control the land and be able to ensure that property is affordable and that the land is used for the interest of the community.

The message is basically that while it's not the American way to punish success, Americans have the right to hear from energy companies what they're doing to ensure a stable and affordable supply of energy.

The million-dollar cycle hasn't completely played itself out in the more affordable areas, which include the Inland Empire. There is more to happen there.

Jeff Raikes

The Internet is crucial to running a successful business today, and companies that don't have at least an online presence risk missing out. With Microsoft Office Live, we are making online services available for small businesses to create an enterprise-like IT infrastructure for them without the management requirements. Our goal is to make it easy and affordable for small businesses to have a more customizable Internet-based solution.

Sharad Pawar

We will primarily focus on affordable housing, water supply and transport infrastructure, as these are critical for Mumbai. Infrastructure deficit is an issue in all urban areas.

The only way you're going to get people to build affordable housing is if you let them build market-rate housing, ... Setting aside 20 percent would be efficient. But whether it's 10, 20 or 30 percent is a matter for the board to consider.

Alex James

We decided what we wanted in our house and built the solar system around that. Our house is an affordable house and is an interpretation of what a solar house of today could look like.

We share the government's goal of affordable broadband for all New Zealanders. The broadband market has developed strongly in the last year and we see it developing further this year, helped by lower prices and higher speeds.

We share the Government's goal of affordable broadband for all New Zealanders.

Mary Wright

A couple of the grants are based on your GPA from high school, so basically it's affordable if you worked hard in high school.

Space needs to be affordable for all in some way.

Charles Kennedy

We want a strong, vibrant economy for Britain so that we can set out a clear and affordable alternative programme for government.

Patrick Fitzgerald

We have everything you can find at a Strip casino but we have $5 tables. That's who we are -- that's our brand. It's affordable luxury.

We have designed these two new projectors with features that are essential to business and education professionals. The combination of brightness and valuable features at an affordable price makes these projectors perfect for any cost-conscious customer.

This collaboration with Red Hat will help the developer community worldwide test and certify their applications at IBM innovation centers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux on IBM platforms, expanding customer choice to deploy affordable Linux-based applications in their existing environments.

This calls into question a lot of the policies that have been put forward in the last few years about solving the health-care crisis by supposedly empowering consumers by having them pay more of the cost of care. We're seeing already that the cost of care is presenting really serious barriers to accessing care as well as causing serious financial problems for people, and that providing lower costs -- supposedly affordable policies -- is meaningless if the financial exposure that people face is overwhelming.

Providing these necessary resources for the people, ... paves the way for affordable housing units.

Providing clean, dependable and affordable electricity is the single most important commodity we can contribute to improving the quality of life in underdeveloped countries.

Rather than arresting and jailing homeless people for violation, let's find out why they're homeless in the first place. There's a lack of day shelters, and affordable housing.

Prices on networking products have really gone down because of wide availability. It's certainly affordable for small businesses.

Our shares have always appealed to individual investors and we expect this step to make our shares more affordable and even more attractive to retail shareholders.

John Key

The surplus confirms that business tax cuts are affordable and so are personal tax cuts.

It seems to me they have met the two key goals: ensuring a return to the state and affordable pricing.

Its a very affordable way to go, compared to travel hockey, which can run anywhere from $2,500 to $8,000 a year. That's one reason why Fishers Youth Hockey was created.

It wasn't much of a house to begin with. At the time it was affordable for me,

G. H. Hardy

There's a true, true problem with affordable housing in this city. I'm one of the only guys around that's creating any supply of affordable new condos, and that's pretty scary.