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“The poor, no less than the rich, stay tuned in to the Dream Machine in bad times as well as good....By 1995, millions of the poor were left without housing, medical care; jobs, or educational opportunity; six million children-one of every four kids under 6 years of age in America-were officially poor. Mired in Third-World conditions of poverty while video-bombarded with First-World dreams, rarely has a population suffered a greater gap between socially cultivated appetites and socially available opportunities.”

“The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.”

Long Home Values Term Demand Critical Factors Long Term Ownership Equity Housing Home Ownership

Author:Mortimer Zuckerman

“America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.”

Care America Health Care Housing

Author:Elliott Abrams

“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.”

Thinking Way Giving Believe Enough Bigs Given Christ Taste Plant Everlasting Furniture Housing Nationality

Author:Duane Chapman

“People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.”

People Needs Government Responsibility Steps Industry Taking Responsibility Housing Every Step Intervening

Author:Eric Cantor

“Low income is related to poorer housing, poorer diet, fewer social amenities, worse working conditions. (...) After adjustment for age, sex, race, smoking, alcohol consumption, sleep habits, leisure-time physical activity, chest pain, diabetes, or cancer, there was still an increase risk of 1.6 for those with inadequate incomes.”

“Promotion of health generally by improving the standard of living. From the health point of view we are in this connexion first and foremost interested in the three fundamental environmental factors: housing (including family life), nutrition, and working conditions (including human relations as well as material conditions).”

Source: Health service, society, and medicine: present day health services in their relation to medical science and social structures

“In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.”

People Economy Months Six Oil Bubbles Commodity Six Months Housing Central Banks Cuckoos Housing Bubble

Author:Marc Faber

“My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.”

People Made Asks Decision Views Building Cost Office Lows East Attractive Helpful Apartment Housing

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

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

Looks Today Form Used Known Modern Housing

Book:The House: Its Origins and Evolution

Source: The House: Its Origins and Evolution

“The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that's a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!”

People Believe Doe Real Play Jobs Mum Homeless Dressings Housing Make Believe Dressing Up Real Jobs Homeless People

Author:Jeremy Irvine