| At
any given time today in America, there are about half a million people who are
"homeless" -- they don't have a “permanent, safe, decent, affordable place to
live.” Around the world there are about 100 million homeless people, and many
of them are women and children.
-- Robert
Alan |  |
Exploitation,
alienation, poverty, disempowerment, fragmenting and debilitating labor, production
for the profit of a few -- much less harsh homelessness, starvation, and degradation
-- are not like gravity. They arise from institutional relations established by
human beings. New institutions, also established by human beings, can generate
other vastly superior outcomes. Defining and working to attain those new institutions
ought to be our economic agenda.
-- Michael Albert
 | “In
today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution,
threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with
growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We
need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.”
-- Maya Angelou
|
“Shelter
Network’s programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children
and adults.”
-- Maya
Angelou
 | Clearly,
there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks.
I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them
and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally
ill?
-- William Baldwin
"A strong
economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for
housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable
housing becomes completely inaccessible."
-- William
Baldwin |
You
can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can
spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.
-- Jello Biafra
“Music is the fourth great
material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.”
-- Christian
Nevell Bovee
The
average family earning minimum wage spends 141 percent of their income struggling
to meet basic needs - food, shelter, clothing.
-- Sherrod Brown
*
Peace
is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for
many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into
bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity
- a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved,
forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must
begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.
-- Ralph
J. Bunche |  |
“There are certain
things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is
captured in the phrase 'to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy'. The need
to live is our physical need for such things as food, clothing, shelter, economical
well-being, health. The need to love is our social need to relate to other people,
to belong, to love and to be loved. The need to learn is our mental need to develop
and to grow. And the need to leave a legacy is our spiritual need to have a sense
of meaning, purpose, personal congruence, and contribution”
-- Stephen R.
Covey
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Homeless
Persons' Memorial Day
- December 21
World
Habitat Day - 1st Monday in October
End
Poverty Day - October 17
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