Charles L. Brace Quotes

But where else should they sleep?

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.

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.

There are no "points of light" for those who sleep on grates and park benches.

There is sometimes a tendency to assume that everyone in this great country has adequate housing. But when you go to certain places, certain neighborhoods, both urban and rural, you find out that's not the case, and I think we have to do much more.

It's true that eviction affects the young and the old, the sick and the able-bodied. It affects white folks and black folks and Hispanic folks and immigrants. If you spend time in housing court, you see a really diverse array of folks there.

Eviction is fundamentally changing the face of poverty.

The Conservative government's neglect of social housing is all too apparent and should be a source of national shame.

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either.

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

What in the name of humanity is to become of them—where are they to go?

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

How can you worship a homeless man on Sunday and ignore one on Monday?

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

There is plenty of affordable housing —it is simply occupied by the wrong people.... The problem in New York is not high rents, but low incomes.

The slums will be but a memory.

You cannot let men live like pigs …. We need not wait for the Millennium to get rid of the slum. We can do it now.

You have to understand the role the landlords are playing in shaping neighborhoods, how they potentially expand or reduce inequality, how their profits are a direct result of some tenant's poverty.

Poverty is a relationship that involves a lot of folks, rich and poor alike. I was looking for something that brought a lot of different people in a room. Eviction does that, embroils landlords and tenants, lawyers and social workers.

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

The holidays are a rough time for the homeless, but it's a year-round problem we have to solve.

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

For far too many, the housing crisis has become a human crisis, with people being criminalised who should instead be protected as our most vulnerable citizens.

I think this book, Matthew Desmond's "Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.", if you have a friend who is a public official, hand him or her this book. It's that important. And this book raises some serious questions about what kind of country do we want to be.

Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism, a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction. We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.