Walter Benn Michaels Quotes

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

We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve.

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

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

You cannot let men live like pigs …. We need not wait for the Millennium to get rid of the slum. We can do it now.

If I cannot address the issue of visible homelessness and abject poverty on the streets of this community, I will not get re-elected in four years.

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

Although AmeriCorps is making a difference among its participants and the people they serve, we must address homelessness and the need for job training among our veterans.

Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.

I do Skid Row every night.

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

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

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.

About one third of the people who are on the streets are mentally ill.

Without a home there can be no good citizen.

There was a guy that was friends with my father, a very well-known and powerful hustler on the Eastern seaboard. He was a very interesting guy who would literally rent a passenger van and would take the poor kids from the ghettos and black neighborhoods down to the sporting goods store and just spend money. Buy them whatever they want.

I've always been a big supporter of homeless charities across the board, ever since I first moved to London.

The 'Guardian' supports the vital work that volunteers and campaigners do to mitigate homelessness and destitution; we will also continue to report on the causes of homelessness and destitution and urge policy change that will solve it.

I would like to make sure I'm not homeless.

Subsidizing someone's rent is much cheaper than paying for new housing, police or medical responses, or hospital or jail stays.

With commitment and the right investments, we can create a San Francisco where no one is forced, relegated, or allowed to sleep on the streets, and where no one endures addiction or mental illness on the streets without supportive and effective services.

I find that our response to homelessness really puzzlingly. It's a peculiar response that people have.

Poverty is not inevitable. It is a human ill that we can fight if we decide to do so together.

Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities.