Liz Murray Quotes

I was able to do The Saint of Fort Washington, on the relationship between two homeless men.

To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home.

My mother and I took over abandoned buildings to sleep in.

But where else should they sleep?

Homelessness, open air drug use and mental illness - which we all see in this city - are things we've been relying on the DA's office and the jails to deal with. That's really expensive, inhumane and ineffective.

That's something that I learned when I was homeless. Hotels are awesome because they are going to let you in and you can use the bathroom and when you're young and pretty you can probably use the pool. Somebody might by you a drink.

When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

I spend a fair bit of time in Los Angeles, and there is much I love about the place - the weather, the food, the beaches and the golf. And a few things I don't. Like the way an enormous number of mentally ill people seem to be forced to live on the streets with little or nothing in the way of government assistance.

The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.

The world of the homeless is a tough and interesting world.

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.

About one third of the people who are on the streets are mentally ill.

There is no greater priority for the department whose name begins with 'housing' than dealing with houselessness .... We can do better than 1 million people sleeping in the streets.

There are no "points of light" for those who sleep on grates and park benches.

I was 17 and living on the streets. I had the education of technically an eighth-grader, but in reality, I had never had a formal education.

My mum literally drives into Skid Row every day and manages teams that are assembled to walk around and engage with usually chronically homeless people and try to get them into permanent housing.

Losing a home sends families to shelters, abandoned houses, and the street.

People end up on the street for many different reasons - leaving care or hospital, problems with debt, unemployment, mental health, family breakup - and so the help they need is varied, too.

I lost an apartment. l became homeless for 11 months and squatted in a building on Sullivan Street in lower Manhattan.

Sadly, youth homelessness is an issue throughout the country.

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

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

My dad was a street kid for seven years - he was homeless.