Urban Problem Quotes

L.a. 's air pollution has turned an environmental issue into everybody's issue.

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.

At twilight time the smog makes a rainbow.

About one third of the people who are on the streets are mentally ill.

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.

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.

It is ludicrous to suggest that we would ever do things that would end with people living on our streets.

I want to deal with the homeless situation here in Washington, D.C. I think it is a travesty that we've got men - and increasingly women - families, across the street and the in shadow of this great capital, that shows a lack of concern, not just for the capital, but for American, when we are allowing something like that to happen.