Ted Wheeler Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

We need a coordinated, citywide approach to make sure that everyone in San Francisco is sheltered and has access to the care they need.

I would like to make sure I'm not homeless.

Airbnb is built on the foundation of creating community through belonging, and we're honored to stand with a bipartisan group of mayors and businesses from across the country dedicated to improving communities by addressing affordable housing and homelessness.

In San Francisco, we have long faced serious challenges in managing the crisis of homelessness on our streets.

I want to make sure that nobody's dying on the streets when I'm president.

is clothed with powers competent to calling for the resources of the community.

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.

If we care about family stability, if we care about community stability, then we need fewer evictions.

Some people say that rough sleeping has always existed and always will - that there is nothing that can be done to stop it. That is simply not true.

People end up on the street for many different reasons - leaving care or hospital, problems with debt, unemployment, mental health, family breakup - and so the help they need is varied, too.

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.

The church should lead on issues of housing and affordability.

You go to your public library, or you call your fire department or police department, what do you think you are calling? These are socialist institutions.

I've always thought that the level of homelessness in society is likely to be a truer measure of how civilised we are then almost any other factor.

Fueled by the kindness and generosity of strangers, 'Food for the Poor' builds houses for people.

Sadly, youth homelessness is an issue throughout the country.

While we recognise the challenges councils are facing, we do expect to see them match our commitment to the most vulnerable.