Top 151 Homelessness Quotes & Sayings

It's almost impossible to get the outside world to take any notice of homelessness at all.

We can't solve the issues of homelessness without more housing.

God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

Philosophy is transcendental homelessness; it is the urge to be at home everywhere

After struggling with homelessness like other areas across the state, we bucked the status quo to make San Diego the only big city in California where homelessness went down, not up.

New York is the capital, the national headquarters of homelessness.... No one feels he belongs here.

Homelessness can be complex, and some rough sleepers will refuse help when living on the street becomes entrenched. But fining people, confiscating tents, and forcing people to move on from certain areas will do nothing to combat the core issues that cause homelessness.

Homelessness is the actor's fate; physical incapacity to attain what is most required and desired by such a spirit as I am a slave to.

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

Homelessness is an umbrella term for a lot of different problems that need separate solutions.

The 'Guardian' supports the vital work that volunteers and campaigners do to mitigate homelessness and destitution; we will also continue to report on the causes of homelessness and destitution and urge policy change that will solve it.

We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness.

I think everyone has such a negative perception of homeless people - including myself, before I'd researched homelessness for my role in 'Hollyoaks.'

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

Homelessness has become a human rights crisis.

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

City's effort to end homelessness among veterans is different than how things used to be in L.A.

If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.

Have you ever noticed that the only metaphor we have in our public discourse for solving problems is to declare war on it? We have the war on crime, the war on cancer, the war on drugs. But did you ever notice that we have no war on homelessness? You know why? Because there's no money in that problem. No money to be made off of the homeless. If you can find a solution to homelessness where the corporations and politicians can make a few million dollars each, you will see the streets of America begin to clear up pretty damn quick!

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

I've always thought that the level of homelessness in society is likely to be a truer measure of how civilised we are then almost any other factor.

Homelessness isn't just an issue in San Francisco. It's an issue throughout California and up and down the West Coast. We need to support policies that address our twin troubles of housing affordability and homelessness at the state-level.

People like me - who set up a homelessness foundation, worked with all the homeless charities, authored probably six of seven homelessness papers - don't make changes without thinking through the impact of them on the homeless.

I don't think anybody's had the confidence that we'd ever be able to make a dent in homelessness. We've just come to accept that we manage homelessness, that we try to make it less bad, but we never make it better.

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.

It didn't take me long to go from financial stability to fearing homelessness.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

Homelessness is an issue close to my heart.

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.

Sadly, youth homelessness is an issue throughout the country.

We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America.

It should be obvious that banning begging or criminalising rough sleeping will do little to combat homelessness.

We have a moral responsibility to help veterans avoid homelessness and displacement.

Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.

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.

Homelessness and behavioral health challenges affect every neighborhood in San Francisco.

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

At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.

What I know about street outreach is that it is essential to dealing with the issue of youth homelessness.

LGBT youth face a much higher risk of violence and homelessness after being rejected by their family of origin.

Every homeless puppy and kitten was born to parents who weren't spayed or neutered. I'm proud to support PETA's work to prevent animal homelessness.

There is no single cause of homelessness, and vulnerable people, those with mental health problems and addictions for example, need support not punishment.

We needed to take a discrete population to give people the confidence that if we can end veterans' homelessness , we can attack chronic homelessness, families and other populations like foster youth, who each have distinct needs.

There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able to reduce homelessness among veterans. It's a pretty shameful situation.

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.

Of course homelessness has many causes and the solutions are often frustratingly complex.

Homelessness came into being because liberal policy makers embraced a series of foolish ideas.

Environment, homelessness, infrastructure and immigration - I'm very focused on all four, which are critical to the success of Los Angeles.

Many people theorize poverty, but so many elements of poverty, individually, for most people who theorize about poverty would be really difficult to even comprehend the individual things. Just take homelessness. If you are homeless, what does it mean not to have a post box where people can contact you; what does it mean not knowing where you're going to sleep at the end of the day; what does it mean not having a place where you can store what little you might possess. So dealing with homelessness in itself is a huge thing for most people who are commentators [on] or benefactors to poverty.

Homelessness is like public education - something that for far too long we haven't put the resources or love or attention to.

Even though homelessness reaches into the depths of despair, there's also a pride and beauty in it, as well.

I don't wish homelessness on anyone, especially when you come from where your parents work hard.

We must all work together to end youth homelessness in America

The idea that squatting in some way offers a reasonable solution to the issue of homelessness is both false and cruel.

Young people are at a higher risk of homelessness than adults and, when they find themselves in crisis, are too often overlooked by hard-pressed council homelessness departments.

We need housing for people who are exiting homelessness, and need to make sure we're providing housing at multiple levels of care so people can get the services they need to permanently exit homelessness and make their home in San Francisco.

Supporting people to stay in their homes is surely a better method of reducing homelessness than acting after the fact.

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

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.