Ben Carson: “Housing First, I think, gets a bad name because people think we are just getting people off the street, and then we are…”

I would hope at some point that many people who are oppositional would actually stop and spend time discussing with us what we are doing.

I can't emphasize strongly enough to all appropriations members that we have to do this before a disaster occurs. We have to.

I would very much welcome having a long-overdue conversation with members of this committee about how we can provide meaningful, dignified assistance to those we serve.

I have had an opportunity to see a number of places, particularly in Detroit, where they were able to use some of the funding to put lighting in, to put cameras in, and the police say it has drastically decreased the criminal activity in…