When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.
Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.
I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.
It's almost impossible to get the outside world to take any notice of homelessness at all.
Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You're on the outskirts of society.
In San Francisco, we have long faced serious challenges in managing the crisis of homelessness on our streets.
It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old... homelessness can happen to everybody.
I had never even heard of the term 'hidden homeless' before... It's not just Orlando and Kissimmee. It's a national issue; it's a national problem.
I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness. I've always said I hold him responsible for that.
