There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.
New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness. . . . No one feels he belongs here.
I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness and I've always said I hold him responsible for that.
Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere
The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.
Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent animal homelessness.
In a normal family, surprise means presents, cake and a party. My family, surprise means homelessness, abandonment and destruction of private property. Sometimes we have cake. We're not losers.
The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.
Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas.
I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have.
LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.
Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on it? We have the war on crime, the war on cancer, the war on drugs. But did you ever notice that we have no war on homelessness? You know why? Because there's no money in that problem. No money to be made off of the homeless. If you can find a solution to homelessness where the corporations and politicians can make a few million dollars each, you will see the streets of America begin to clear up pretty damn quick!
We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness.
It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.
What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.
Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.
I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.
I don't think anybody's had the confidence that we'd ever be able to make a dent in homelessness. We've just come to accept that we manage homelessness, that we try to make it less bad, but we never make it better.
