Homeless Issue Quotes

Ronald Reagan came from show business. His idea of how the government should help the homeless was like your agent. "We'll try to get you work. But don't bug us about it."

There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion.

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.

They're not going to have a homeless person on a poster representing New York.

The council in Blackpool have given the homeless bus passes, but how would they know where to get off?

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

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.

We cannot just say there is a homelessness crisis in San Francisco and continue moving at our normal pace.