Daniel H. Pink Quotes

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

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.

The slums will be but a memory.

There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.

The church should lead on issues of housing and affordability.

The Conservative government's neglect of social housing is all too apparent and should be a source of national shame.

The message [of Donald Trump ] is that if anybody lives in those circumstances in this country, that's something that the government should be working to try to change.

Philadelphia caught my attention in 1995 when a group of homeless families were living in an abandoned cathedral. Even from the beginning they connected theology with what they were doing. They put a banner on the front of the cathedral that said, "How can we worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday."

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

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.

When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.

I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in the cities.

I teach at Harvard, and focusing on understanding this problem on a national level is a big priority of mine right now - where evictions are going up and down, what cities are actually instituting policies that work, what housing insecurity is doing to our cities, neighbourhoods, our kids.

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

Housing being a top-order issue for cities is something that's not trivial.

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

As a country, we can do better. Our home should be a source of stability, not insecurity. This issue is personal for me... even with a steady paycheck, I couldn't pay rent.

For far too many, the housing crisis has become a human crisis, with people being criminalised who should instead be protected as our most vulnerable citizens.

In San Francisco, we have long faced serious challenges in managing the crisis of homelessness on our streets.

As we come to know the seriousness of the situation, the war, the racism, the poverty in our world, we come to realize that things will not be changed simply by words or demonstrations. Rather, it's a question of living one's life in a drastically different way.

Martin Luther King would celebrate the symbolic status (of having a black president), but he would examine what the real substance was. And if he saw that poor and working people were not at the center of public policy, he would be deeply, deeply upset.

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

As long as we give room for domination and the dominators, there will be worries and worried people. Poverty and pestilence will live eternally in the country.

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

Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?