Quotes About Homelessness

My dad was a street kid for seven years - he was homeless.

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.

In the Britain of 2019, around a third of a million of our fellow citizens are homeless.

When you're spending eight to 10 hours out there, the homeless guy is no longer homeless; it's Dave. They become people to you. I think we're really good in this country about saying that they're homeless and, therefore, they don't exist.

I was homeless a few times in my life and it was really hard growing up, but now I'm super grateful about everything.

Shortly after my first daughter was born in 2007, we had to move into a homeless shelter.

For our way-too-large population of homeless children, we can provide tutoring services so they can be ready for college.

Mainly, I have actually been getting involved with an organization called MALDEF. It's a Latino organization. And I would like to get involved with charities that have to do with children or homelessness or education, or all of them together.

If you want to cut crime, if you want to end homelessness, you have to deal with sexual violence, sexual harassment, and domestic violence.

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.

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.

Sadly, youth homelessness is an issue throughout the country.

We know that all too often, homelessness and behavioral health challenges go hand in hand.

It always made me sad that there were kids who didn't have homes.

And when I get famous, I want to donate to people who don't have homes, jobs, anything.

Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street.

The high cost of housing is crushing poor families and sending them to a state of desperation.

We have failed to fully appreciate how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.

Since Mia, my eldest, was born, we've been through the gamut of shelters, transitional housing and even living in a camper in a driveway.

Homelessness has become a human rights crisis.

Homelessness is the fundamental idea of salvation in Jainism. It means the breaking off of all earthly relations, and therefore, above all, indifference to general impressions and avoidance of all worldly motives, the ceasing to act, to hope, to desire.

Homeless people really upset me when I was little. A lot of kids have this reaction, but I would get really worried or sad or concerned or cry.

When a mom or dad can stop worrying about where they will lay their head each night they can start climbing back on their feet and out of poverty.

Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.