Bob Greene Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

You go down to Skid Row and you see literally hundreds of people and not just men, but women and children as well. It's really a tragedy that our society has come to that.

We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.

But where else should they sleep?

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

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

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

People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.

I am not looking for people to be more kind to the homeless; I want to put an end to homelessness.

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

Some people say that rough sleeping has always existed and always will - that there is nothing that can be done to stop it. That is simply not true.

Living and working in the centre of a city, one cannot but be affected by the sight of the homeless on the streets. They are almost an expected feature of life in a big city, and it is tempting to think there is little or nothing that can, or even should, be done about it. This is not so.

New Yorkers want to be compassionate, and they want to live in a city where homeless people aren't stuffed into shelters, spilling out onto the streets. They also want a support system that works.

I'm one of those people when I see a homeless person on the street, I want to know their story. There's a reason they got there.

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

Sadly, youth homelessness is an issue throughout the country.

The holidays are a rough time for the homeless, but it's a year-round problem we have to solve.

We can't solve the issues of homelessness without more housing.

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