10 Quotes by Loren Scott

We have slight improvement in employment, maybe enough to bring down unemployment three- or four-tenths of a percent, but not enough to bring it down this far.

The problem is more basic than 'where are the people?' The problem is the people don't have anywhere to live.

We thought that was the mother of all recessions. This is almost twice as large.

We have exported a lot of our unemployment rate to other states.

There's no way you could spin that into good news.

The tax base will shift more to where they have their residences, instead of where they work. That's where they will pay their property taxes, buy their groceries, buy their cars.

According to the National Homebuilders Association, that is a heroic assumption. We're really being optimistic with that figure.

It's going to take decades, plural, to replace those homes, which is not encouraging.

It's probably one of the few last best hopes out there for people whose homes were flooded, and had no flood insurance. Without this kind of help, there's a very large number of people who are just sunk.