London Breed Quotes

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

Housing vouchers are a vital lifeline for many people I know in New Orleans and around the country, including struggling artists.

The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

I'm for helping the poor, always have been. And I don't think they should be bereft of healthcare.

I've always thought my main concern is to alleviate the burdens on people, who were earning less money, perhaps than £80,000.

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.

Why is it is claimed that if people won't or can't take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?

Society might have been better off without them, but we are supposed to look after the disadvantaged, and so we do it. But it doesn't help the society.

Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.

I lived through a golden period where society felt that it was good to help people who didn't have a great deal of money fulfil their potential.

When regulations on the housing industry are reasonable, the cost of housing goes down. Regulatory relief is needed to make housing more affordable to more Americans.

Poverty-fighting programs are not handouts - they are investments.

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.

Healing Advices for the Poor

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; and does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities.

No one should be richer than a ten millionaire and no one should be without a home.

Society’s willingness to provide for the poor among them increases when the standard of living is advancing.

We don’t want to turn this [social] safety net into a hammock that ends up lulling people in their lives into dependency and complacency.

The old simplifications about "more" schools and "more" housing, or even "better" schools or "better" housing, have not proved very successful in breaking the cycle of poverty or in dealing with the Negro family structure.

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 …

[There should be] a legal guarantee of subsistence for all the destitute ... whether deserving or not.

I have to address the economic conditions of everybody, including, and perhaps first, those who are poor.

A universal voucher program would change the face of poverty in this country.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.