Quotes About Homelessness

Once when I was home for Christmas, and I went down the street and gave 100$ to every homeless guy I saw, until I didn't have any more money left. The coolest thing was, that they didn't realize I had given them $100 until some time after, and I could here a very loud 'GOD BLESS YOU!!!' behind me on my way back to my house.

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

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

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him labor diligently and build one of his own.

Once you live in the street, there's nothing but the street.

I was talking to a homeless man at the laundry mat recently, and he said that when we reduce Christian spirituality to math we defile the Holy. I thought that was very beautiful and comforting because I have never been good at math.

Afterwards they walked east along Fourteenth. "Dutch cant we go to your room?" "I ain't got no room. The old stiff wont let me stay and she's got all my stuff. Honest if I dont get a job this week I'm goin to a recruiting sergeant an re-enlist.

I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.

Feed a man, cloth him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.

I hope we don't get in no more Hoovervilles,'' said

Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

They are clean, dressed and coiffed neatly, and seem serene. They look and act like "normal" shoppers, gamblers, dawdlers, and visitors, but "they" are solo homeless women—mainly over forty years of age and surprisingly well educated—who blend into polite society.

I did a gig in the U.S. once for the homeless. I said 'It's nice to see so many bums on seats.'

If a homeless person has a funny sign, he hasn't been homeless for that long. A real homeless person is too hungry to be funny.

Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.

It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

Nonetheless, America has left you feeling like an unwanted cat or dog tossed out of the family SUV at a distant highway rest stop.

She was one of the stars, a bright dot in blackness, without home, without a companion, in eternal cold and silence.

Trump, tenants said, tried to force them out by annoying them. He proposed to move homeless people into at least ten vacant apartments; the city declined the generous offer. Maintenance workers ignored leaky faucets and broken appliances and covered up windows of empty apartments with ratty tinfoil. A tenants' group accused Trump of harassment, but he denied all. "Let me tell you something about the rich," he said. "They have a very low threshold for pain." After

problem with Housing First stems from the fact that it doesn't require that people address their mental illness and substance abuse, which are often the underlying causes of homelessness.

Against Benioff's suggestion that San Francisco's homeless population is heavily comprised of families with children, the research finds that far more homeless in the San Francisco Bay Area are adults without families than in other parts of the United States. Whereas families make up 32, 53, and 65 percent of the homeless in New York City, Chicago, and Boston, they make up just 9 percent of the Bay Area's homeless population.

When a television reporter asked Bay Area mayors why there was so much homelessness in Bay Area cities but not in affluent communities east of the Bay Area, the Berkeley mayor answered, "I assume [it's] the fact that our cities have such robust social services and shelter, as well as just the environment, the climate, a city that is inviting and welcoming to people.

While some homeless are attracted to San Francisco for housing and services, many of San Francisco's most visible homeless people don't use them. When I visited the Tenderloin with Tom Wolf, he pointed to the doorway to a building. "I slept here," he said, "because I was such an addict that I didn't want to walk the five blocks to the shelter. I wanted to be right near the dealers.