Grant Shapps Quotes

People end up on the street for many different reasons - leaving care or hospital, problems with debt, unemployment, mental health, family breakup - and so the help they need is varied, too.

Homelessness and behavioral health challenges affect every neighborhood in San Francisco.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

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

If the government didn't try to guarantee that everybody should have access to decent health care, it wouldn't happen.

We are not for cutting social welfare and are for more health care.

We need a coordinated, citywide approach to make sure that everyone in San Francisco is sheltered and has access to the care they need.

Every day on our streets there are people who are facing a combination of homelessness, mental illness, and addiction. Each of these conditions is challenging alone, but when experienced at the same time it creates a downward spiral that makes it even more difficult for the person to get treated and housed.

Homelessness, open air drug use and mental illness - which we all see in this city - are things we've been relying on the DA's office and the jails to deal with. That's really expensive, inhumane and ineffective.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

We also need people like social workers, volunteers, the Christian Industrial League, drug treatment programs to make sure you are getting them a job. That's what you have to do. Otherwise, we just keep stepping around these things.

What is Medicaid all about? It's staying true to the mission: to care for people historically left behind.

You're entitled to Medicaid regardless of your income. Don't worry about your health care.

I fully support a national health care program for the U.S.

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.

Local government cannot resolve the health care crisis in America. Local governments cannot resolve the affordable housing problem in America.

In a land of great wealth, families must not live in hopeless poverty. In a land rich in harvest, children just must not go hungry. In a land of healing miracles, neighbors must not suffer and die unattended. In a great land of learning and scholars, young people must be taught to read and write.

American poverty is darkened by lonliness: poverty in so many poor countries …. Is brightened only by community. Helping people gain other people to lean on—not just offering cheaper health care and food stamps, tax cuts and charter schools—seems essential to making the American dream work …

The United States of America is the only country on Earth that does not guarantee health care to all of its people as a right.

We are the only major country in the world that does not guarentee health care to its citizens as a right.

My mum literally drives into Skid Row every day and manages teams that are assembled to walk around and engage with usually chronically homeless people and try to get them into permanent housing.

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 think Medicaid harms people.

Eviction often leads to a disruption in critical services like Medicaid and nutrition assistance when families need them most.

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.