Newbold Morris Quotes

There are thousands on thousands in New York who have no assignable home.

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

There is no greater priority for the department whose name begins with 'housing' than dealing with houselessness .... We can do better than 1 million people sleeping in the streets.

I came to the realization of how essential a role housing plays in the lives of the poor.

The idea that squatting in some way offers a reasonable solution to the issue of homelessness is both false and cruel.

Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.

We need a real tent city in the heart of Moscow.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.

We cannot have homeless people in our society. It's just wrong.

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a home.

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.

If we provide 400 new beds, we get 400 new tramps.

Big Beggarman

I realized eventually that when I ran out of places to stay and found myself on the D train and in Central Park, I was actually homeless.

I lost an apartment. l became homeless for 11 months and squatted in a building on Sullivan Street in lower Manhattan.

We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.

I think people need housing. And there's empty buildings, I think people should live in there. If you want to call them squatters, trespassers, hey, I call Wall Street thieves!

The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.

Every American will be given a decent, safe and affordable home.

Bread for the Needy, clothing for the naked, and houses for the homeless.

How can you worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

There isn't profit to be made off low-rent housing, and it's time we acknowledge that, instead of perverting a system around maintaining private ownership.

There are no "points of light" for those who sleep on grates and park benches.

Part of the problem is the connotation that some attach to the homeless: the assumption that if you're homeless, you're going to misbehave. But not all homeless people do misbehave.

There is plenty of affordable housing —it is simply occupied by the wrong people.... The problem in New York is not high rents, but low incomes.