Charles Bass Quotes

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.

Some kids don't know where they'll spend the night. How can we expect them to focus on learning?

It's hunger. It's homelessness, often. It's underfunded, under-resourced schools. It's abuse beyond the chilling. It's having overwhelmed parents and caregivers. Those are the things that young people are struggling with beyond our view.

Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.

You're in a situation where you have limited education opportunities, you don't have any money, you can't get a job; what are you going to do? You're going to go back to this criminal network that you actually made while you were in prison.

I was definitely an at-risk kid growing up.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children.

I think it is really sad that when people lose their homes they kind of lose their minds too.

The challenges that the homeless face aren't dissimilar to those in developing countries.

The cause of homelessness is lack of housing.

Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.

Thousands of American children have only a cell, a hospital bed or a temporary shelter to call home.

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.

If you just catalog the effects eviction has on people's live and neighborhoods, it's pretty troubling.

Sadly, youth homelessness is an issue throughout the country.

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

I dropped out of school when I was 14 and I was hanging out with comedians in their thirties. I moved out of home and had some real lows.

Many trans women of color come from poverty and are forced to live on the streets. Their families have shunned them, and their remaining family are the friends they've come to rely on.

Too many veterans are poor or near poor and homeless because of it.

You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has been losing its popular legitimacy. You have a corrupt police force, not to mention homelessness, joblessness. The problems are huge.

The root causes of the gang culture lie right across the policy spectrum - but they can all be found in the same areas geographically: worklessness; family breakdown; educational failure and addiction.

There is a dream on the street. I hear it constantly - finding a piece of land, raising food, building a house. I hear talk of hopelessness. The price of land, you know. Housing is impossible. They are trapped in a cycle. How can you ask for a job after you've been sleeping in the bushes all night?

I don't know the statistics, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that a disproportionate number of comics come from broken homes.