London Breed 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.

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.

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

We need a real tent city in the heart of Moscow.

I spend a fair bit of time in Los Angeles, and there is much I love about the place - the weather, the food, the beaches and the golf. And a few things I don't. Like the way an enormous number of mentally ill people seem to be forced to live on the streets with little or nothing in the way of government assistance.

We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America.

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.

Homelessness and behavioral health challenges affect every neighborhood in San Francisco.

We need housing for people who are exiting homelessness, and need to make sure we're providing housing at multiple levels of care so people can get the services they need to permanently exit homelessness and make their home in San Francisco.

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

I do Skid Row every night.

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

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

Local government cannot resolve the health care crisis in America. Local governments cannot resolve the affordable housing problem in America.

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

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.

Living and working in the centre of a city, one cannot but be affected by the sight of the homeless on the streets. They are almost an expected feature of life in a big city, and it is tempting to think there is little or nothing that can, or even should, be done about it. This is not so.

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.

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

I want to be clear: We can address safety and livability issues head-on without criminalizing homelessness. After all, people living on our streets are themselves vulnerable to crime and other hazards.

By incarcerating someone who is homeless or addicted or who suffers from mental health challenges, we only further destabilize that person and create situations where they are more likely to commit crimes in the future.

I've always been a big supporter of homeless charities across the board, ever since I first moved to London.

We have an obligation at the local level to do everything we can with the resources we have. And we do those things. But we're never going to solve homelessness - not here in Portland, not here in any major city in America - if we keep assuming that it is purely a local issue.

I was very clear that we'd invest much more in shelter space to get people off the streets, out of doorways, out from overpasses and get them connected with services - whatever services they need, whether it's mental health whether its addiction or economic resources.