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"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."
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"Do you know how many houses all of the nonprofits have built? No more than 5,000 in five years. Do you know how many we lost? Two hundred thousand."
"Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves."
"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
"In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in furniture."
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
"I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps."
"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."
"I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills."
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"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."
"If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself."
"The choice is not normally between the north and south. It might be between Britain and Europe."
"I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are."
"There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there."
"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."
"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."
"That's what I think regions are about, making central government more accountable and fairer."
"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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