Above Quote by Jackie Speier

I grew up with a family that had very little and were at times homeless.

— Misha Collins

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four…

— Patti Smith

There are places in America that have not just protected middle-class neighborhoods but reduced homelessness. Even places like Houston have been able to reduce…

— Cleve Jones

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents.…

— Bernard Hill

“Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the…

— Jordan Flaherty

My family was actually homeless for several years when I was a kid. It's a bit unusual for a member of Congress.

— Kyrsten Sinema

In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was to go…

— Matthew Desmond

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

— William Nicholson

My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three…

— Elizabeth Warren

People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.

— Sheila McKechnie

Homeless people living in a poor country - by acceptable means, is common almost unavoidable. Homeless people living in a rich one, a disgrace

— Alexander Fennis

I had friends who lived on my couch because they were going to be homeless.

— Ruben Gallego