The voters have been very clear that we need to address the homelessness and housing crisis that is affecting our City, and I remain focused on solving these issues.
As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there.
A homeless veteran should not have to stand at a freeway exit with a cardboard sign. That's not okay.
It's one of these baffling things about the world we live in that there is still homelessness, and it's good that there are charities like Social Bite that go all out to help and make a difference.
Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.
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.
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
I was homeless for a little bit. I was on people's couches, but it was an amazing journey. I got to make people laugh all the way.
I'm one of those people when I see a homeless person on the street, I want to know their story. There's a reason they got there.
Is Portland worse off than other cities? Is Portland really 'Tent City U.S.A.?' I want to be clear: The answer is no. While the homeless situation in Portland is significant and unacceptable, it is not unique.
The goal, being bold about it, is to stop homelessness in Manchester. I've been in this community for 11 years now - my wife Carla is from Manchester, the kids are Mancs, born and bred - so homelessness is not an issue we can shy away from.
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.
It's hard being homeless at any age, but at 16 years old? I can't even imagine. When you're a homeless teen, how do you build a future or have any sort of life?
It's almost impossible to get the outside world to take any notice of homelessness at all.
We cannot have homeless people in our society. It's just wrong.
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.
When I was struggling to get recognition as a wrestler, I faced innumerable hardships. I even slept on the ring itself after finishing my practice. Those days, I did not have a house to live.
We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.
In San Francisco, we have long faced serious challenges in managing the crisis of homelessness on our streets.
I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
I do know that homelessness is related to housing, and we haven't been producing housing in the numbers that our community requires - a lot of the escalating costs of housing is related to the fact that supply is way short than demand.
I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.
We know that solving homelessness has to be about more than simply introducing a new raft of government initiatives, task forces and top-down solutions.
We cannot just say there is a homelessness crisis in San Francisco and continue moving at our normal pace.
