Sadiq Kahn Quotes

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

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

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

Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

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.

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.

The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world.

I do Skid Row every night.

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.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

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

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

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

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

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

I see this rise in rough sleeping and homelessness - in one of the wealthiest cities in the world - as a growing source of shame. And as Londoners, as a city, and as a country, I believe we have a moral duty to tackle it head-on.