I lived on the West Coast my entire life and I’ve seen first hand how the homeless crisis is spiraling out of control in cities like Seattle and Portland and Los Angeles.
Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.
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.
Before we complete our term in office we will provide home for every family in Kerala. No one will remain homeless.
I befriended a homeless man five years ago, bought him a new set of teeth, helped him get his life on track. A writer for ‘Elle’ spent two hours talking to this guy and discarded almost everything he said. When the story came out, we both were weeping while reading it on the street!
I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed.
People don’t realize how many of the homeless are single moms, and a lot of veterans, and people with mental illness.
When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he’s saving a parking place.
Migrant workers have helped build our roads, homes and offices. We cannot stand and watch them be homeless.
I’ve been the teenage success, I’ve been homeless and driving around in my car and not knowing where to eat. You just want to keep working and learning, and I was doing that. If I hadn’t done ‘Wild Bill,’ I’m sure I would have acted in something else.
I started a student organization that was basically designed to connect students with homeless folks. We visited them and sometimes brought food, but mostly we were there for swapping stories.
Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.
The financial hardships caused by COVID-19 puts some renters and homeowners at risk of becoming homeless, which could mean greater risk of contracting and spreading the coronavirus for families.
A homeless veteran should not have to stand at a freeway exit with a cardboard sign. That’s not okay.
Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion – painting, writing, music. People seem less status-conscious. Even wealthy people buy second-hand clothes and look a little bit homeless.
‘Dirtbag’ is just the term we use, like a ‘gnarly dude’ in surfing. Within the climbing culture, it means being a committed lifer: someone who has embraced a minimalist ethic in order to rock climb. It basically means you’re a homeless person by choice.
I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that’s going on to the left of the frame.
I have a son, who is a… not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.
The homeless person or the schizophrenic person talking to themselves are disassociated from their immediate environment. They’re off in a fantasy, and it’s very similar to what happens on a cell phone.
How am I supposed to pay my bills? I can’t get a regular job because I have been accused of being a Nazi. Am I supposed to be homeless?
I just feel like I influence people because I’m like – I was practically homeless.
We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
I live near Thompson Square Park, and there are a lot of colorful people I see in the park – a lot of different personalities and homeless people – you get to know them. And every now and then, there is suddenly someone who is no longer around, and you’re just like, ‘Wow,’ but you never really know what happened to them.
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.
We live in a world where there is so much wealth. There shouldn’t be a homeless person. That’s crazy.
My dad was a street kid for seven years – he was homeless.
I met a woman working 30 hours a week, trying to make ends meet, three children. And she slept the night before I met her in her car because she’s homeless. We can do better. We can build a nation of shared prosperity.
Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you’ll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music.
We live in a world where there is so much wealth. There shouldn’t be a homeless person. That’s crazy.
Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
I was homeless and I was in San Diego and I started singing in a local coffee shop and people started coming to hear me sing.
Migrant workers have helped build our roads, homes and offices. We cannot stand and watch them be homeless.
Like most people I knew, I thought drug addicts were the kinds of people we see in doorways in neighbourhoods most of us try to avoid – people obviously strung out, often homeless and possibly psychotic. I didn’t think my son could become addicted, but he had.
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.
Growing up, my dad was ‘get a real job, don’t go pursuing your dreams, that’s how you become homeless.’ So, do I pick my family or do I pick my own happiness, and how much does my own happiness depend on my family?
We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy, and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homeless. Most of us feel a moral and ethical responsibility to do so – to ‘do unto others.’
What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you’re homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That’s what we need to change.
I’ve been homeless. I’ve worked at 7-Eleven.
The work my mum does, a lot of it is re-housing homeless people, that’s a real job. I play make-believe and dressing up for a living!
I had never even heard of the term ‘hidden homeless’ before… It’s not just Orlando and Kissimmee. It’s a national issue; it’s a national problem.
When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
I would like to make sure I’m not homeless.
I was planning on my future as a homeless person. I had a really good spot picked out.
One of my first observations about New York that I was so fascinated with was that you’d be at a stoplight, and you’re with everybody; there’s a homeless dude and some weird celebrity and a cop and someone who looks exactly like you.
Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.
In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was to go hang out with homeless people around my university and hear them out and understand their situation from their perspective.
The biggest misconception about the homeless is that they got themselves in the mess – let them get themselves out. Many people think they are simply lazy. I urge those to make a friend at a local mission and find out how wrong these assumptions are.
Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness – I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.
You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed.
Though German art can never be Bavarian, but simply German, yet Munich is the capital of this German Art; here, under shelter of a Prince who kindles my enthusiasm, to feel myself a native and member of the people was, to me, the homeless wanderer, a deep, a genuine need.
What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.
When my son was 3 years old – I’ll never forget this – there was this homeless guy walking toward us, and my son looked at me, and he said, ‘Who’s your buddy?’
I’m not telling anyone, ‘Quit your job and be homeless to go for your dream.’
I might be living in a cardboard box under a freeway overpass, homeless, but I won’t be silenced.
Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.
