But I hope to give you a perspective to kind of give you some hope and some belief that this is a human-caused problem that ultimately can be a human-solved problem as well.

We believe if we are to end homelessness, we have to supply the resources to apply to the problem.

It is time to pass Maxine Waters' Ending Homelessness Act now.

This isn't about whether a model is working now. It is about whether we have the resources to actually fuel that model to success.

You can't clean or arrest your way out of homelessness.

I think that if I could have a wish that would not cause me to find my way to the gates of hell, it would be that the President could live one day on Skid Row.

Does that come from Federal funding or from Measure H?

Chairwoman Waters' H.R. 1856 exemplifies the sort of bold, major action we need from the Federal Government.

California was shortchanged.

African Americans were blocked out of home ownership through those programs, and the wealth-building of the 20th Century that occurred left African-American households with one-tenth of the wealth of white households in this country.

We cannot address homelessness without simultaneously addressing structural and institutional racism in America.