Unstable Housing Quotes

When I got to New York, I had no place to sleep. The pay from 'Sesame Street' wasn't enough to rent an apartment. I was staying on people's couches. I stayed in the dressing room until they found out. I stayed with Jim Henson and his family for a week, and I wanted to do that permanently. I didn't dare ask, though.

Working families in Ohio have been hurt badly. It started really with the Bush years.

I'm in between homes right now, but my last house was dope.

All the other problems of poverty emanate from problems of health.

The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.

I went from being a hustler, working different jobs to renting rooms off Craigslist, and I just wasn't happy.

We had bills to pay. My dad wasn't working, and it was tough for my mom. People were always raising the rent, so I had to work, too. Everybody in the house worked to pay the rent.

Even before I was in New York, I couldn't even count how many places I lived in L.A. Definitely over 10.

Many foster children have had difficulty making the transition to independent living. Several are homeless, become single parents, commit crimes, or live in poverty. They are also frequent targets of crime.

Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.

In June 2010, I moved out of my apartment and I have been mostly homeless ever since, off and on. I just live in Airbnb apartments and I check in every week in different homes in San Francisco.

It's true that eviction affects the young and the old, the sick and the able-bodied. It affects white folks and black folks and Hispanic folks and immigrants. If you spend time in housing court, you see a really diverse array of folks there.

I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

Thousands of American children have only a cell, a hospital bed or a temporary shelter to call home.

I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven.

When I was growing up, I heard horror stories about producers losing their houses overnight. No matter who the family is, hearing of them getting evicted is very sad.

My mum raised three kids on her own on sweatshop wages of about six bucks an hour so there was a lot of late rent and landlords knocking on the door.

I don't have a home. I'm on the road, more or less.

I know people who have been without a home for ages, and lots of my friends are sofa surfing because they are in between jobs or saving for degrees and other studies - paying £500 rent every month is just not feasible for them.

The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old... homelessness can happen to everybody.

I worked out; I moved 16 times from the age of 19, just hopping about from different flats, because I couldn't always afford to stay.

It's hunger. It's homelessness, often. It's underfunded, under-resourced schools. It's abuse beyond the chilling. It's having overwhelmed parents and caregivers. Those are the things that young people are struggling with beyond our view.

Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?