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"We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent."
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"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
"You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done."
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
"Some members of both Houses have, it is true, been removed from their employments under the Crown; but were they ever told, either by me or by any other of his majesty's servants, that it was for opposing the measures of the administration in Parliament?"
"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
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"That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer."
"Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done."
"In the north east, there, they have had quite a bit of government offices moving in. It's not a new policy."
"We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing."
"I was the one that brought it in, but not only for the north-east, for every area so we can develop all the regional economies, lift up the national productivity, get greater wealth and share it more evenly."
"What government has been doing, we've got major programmes now, of billions of pounds, which are directed by central government into these areas of deprivation."
"You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that - but if that's a picture of Newcastle, it's not the one I recognise and I bet none in the North East do either."
"Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north."
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