“This country will never be a great nation with people living on the street…We have to address (the needs of) more people who can’t afford to rent on their own.”Too many people get up in the morning, exit their cars, wash up in someone’s public bathroom and go to work everyday. That’s just unacceptable.” – David M. Dworkin
“The two dozen groups which signed onto a letter opposing the g-fee increase included trade groups such as the Mortgage Bankers Association, the American Bankers Association and the Housing Policy Council; affordable housing advocates such as the National Housing Conference, as well as the National Association of Realtors, which represents real estate brokers.”
“My biggest concern is the dynamic of potentially tens of thousands of sheriff’s deputies and other law enforcement officials executing evictions around the country at the same time in the hottest month of the year.” – David M. Dworkin
“We need to recognize the interest of landlords and tenants are unusually aligned. As tenants want to be able to pay rent and landlords want to be paid. Paying the rent is the ultimate answer.”
“Certainly the repair of government-built public housing is an obvious case to be defined as traditional infrastructure. It’s physical, the government built it, it needs to be repaired. The question I have is, how is that not infrastructure?” – David M. Dworkin
“How is housing not infrastructure? It’s a physical asset that is part of a community that is supported by the government, deteriorates over time, and has a direct impact on the quality of life and economy of an area.” – David M. Dworkin
“This is having its worst impact on first-time homebuyers, who generally are more dependent on mortgage financing and have limited budgets. It’s hurting millennials… it’s also hurting people of color who are trying to become homeowners.” – David M. Dworkin
“It’s not good enough to say people are not discriminated against today. There’s a multigenerational impact of past discrimination that we should all be responsible for addressing.” – David M. Dworkin
“[A company’s] job is not risk elimination. It’s risk management. Their mission is to add liquidity to the mortgage markets, not reduce it, and they need to get back in the liquidity business and add liquidity to underserved markets.” – David M. Dworkin
“The principal problem with the private-label securities market is the legal structure and the difficulty in responsibly managing loans that fail. Nothing has been done to resolve that.” -David Dworkin
