Ritchie Torres actually said...

"We should harness the power of this moment to rewrite the social contract with public housing residents and give them the safeties in affordable housing that they deserve, which is long overdue."

"I would not be in the United States Congress were it not for public housing, which gave me something that all of us need -- a safe, decent, affordable home."

"The worst slumlord in the country is the federal government, which has savagely starved public housing of the funding it desperately needs."

"My highest priority is to put my constituents back to work. In the South Bronx the unemployment rate is 25 percent, which is comparable to the joblessness of the Great Depression. We`ve seen a catastr..."