Gladys Berejiklian Quotes

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.

What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

These people living on the streets could have been friends you once knew. They are people who have somehow fallen through the gaps and found themselves, often through unimaginable circumstances, on the cusp of existence. In another reality, this could easily be me or you.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

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.

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

The 'Guardian' supports the vital work that volunteers and campaigners do to mitigate homelessness and destitution; we will also continue to report on the causes of homelessness and destitution and urge policy change that will solve it.

If you look at people who seek a lot of care in American cities for multiple illnesses, it's usually people with a number of overwhelming illnesses and a lot of social problems, like housing instability, unemployment, lack of insurance, lack of housing, or just bad housing.

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.

Tragically, the White House Task Force on Disadvantaged Youth reported that one-quarter of our young people are at serious risk of not achieving productive adulthood.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

In the city, a lot of crime happens, a lot of violence happens from time to time.

The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries.

Alcohol decimated the working class and so many people.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.

More than a billion people in the world live in slums today, roughly one out of every three inhabitants of cities.

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

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

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

Men who were heads of families wandering the streets, eating from garbage cans

I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.

My mum literally drives into Skid Row every day and manages teams that are assembled to walk around and engage with usually chronically homeless people and try to get them into permanent housing.

Our prisons are full of people who are illiterate and innumerate, have been failed by the care system, and often have had a parent in prison.

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.

Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.