Ted Wheeler Quotes

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

We cannot just say there is a homelessness crisis in San Francisco and continue moving at our normal pace.

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

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.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

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

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

Without a home there can be no good citizen.

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.

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.

Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a lot of different people in a room. Eviction does that, embroils landlords and tenants, lawyers and social workers.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.

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

When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens.

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.