Air Quote by Chesa Boudin

Too many people are suffering from severe behavioral health and substance use issues on our streets, which puts a strain on our hospitals and…

— London Breed

Every day on our streets there are people who are facing a combination of homelessness, mental illness, and addiction. Each of these conditions is…

— London Breed

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

— London Breed

I was very clear that we'd invest much more in shelter space to get people off the streets, out of doorways, out from overpasses…

— Ted Wheeler

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

— London Breed

Living and working in the centre of a city, one cannot but be affected by the sight of the homeless on the streets. They…

— Basil Hume

Too often reports have found that private jails and prisons are understaffed, have poor medical care, and have increased security risks, undermining public safety…

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

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

— John Carlos Frey

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,…

— Samantha Morton

We think about the enormous costs of homelessness, or the enormous cost of HIV/AIDS, over the long term, as people visit emergency rooms, etc.…

— Barack Obama

Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close race-class correlation),…

— Noam Chomsky

These are serious problems in all of our major cities: homelessness, education, there are are a number of them. And they require hard thinking…

— Andy Jassy