Grant Shapps Quotes

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

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

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.

Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.

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

But where else should they sleep?

People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.

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

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.

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

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.

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

There are thousands on thousands in New York who have no assignable home.

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

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.

Without a home there can be no good citizen.

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.

If I cannot address the issue of visible homelessness and abject poverty on the streets of this community, I will not get re-elected in four years.

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.

It's almost impossible to get the outside world to take any notice of homelessness at all.

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.

Homelessness isn't just an issue in San Francisco. It's an issue throughout California and up and down the West Coast. We need to support policies that address our twin troubles of housing affordability and homelessness at the state-level.

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.