Grant Shapps Quotes

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.

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

The goal, being bold about it, is to stop homelessness in Manchester. I've been in this community for 11 years now - my wife Carla is from Manchester, the kids are Mancs, born and bred - so homelessness is not an issue we can shy away from.

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

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

A homeless veteran should not have to stand at a freeway exit with a cardboard sign. That's not okay.

If people are expecting the mayor of Portland to solve the problem of homelessness they're going to be sorely disappointed and that's just the truth.

It's one of these baffling things about the world we live in that there is still homelessness, and it's good that there are charities like Social Bite that go all out to help and make a difference.

I had never even heard of the term 'hidden homeless' before... It's not just Orlando and Kissimmee. It's a national issue; it's a national problem.

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

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

Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.

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

People like me - who set up a homelessness foundation, worked with all the homeless charities, authored probably six of seven homelessness papers - don't make changes without thinking through the impact of them on the homeless.

Homelessness is like public education - something that for far too long we haven't put the resources or love or attention to.

The voters have been very clear that we need to address the homelessness and housing crisis that is affecting our City, and I remain focused on solving these issues.

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

People can be so apathetic. They continue to ignore the real people trapped in poverty and homelessness. It's almost maddening.

As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there.

Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.

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

I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.

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.