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After Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the belief in decent housing as a political right or social obligation was supplanted in the U.S. by the notion that suitable shelter should be an act of charity.

— Martin Filler

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, state and local governments began accelerating a veritable War on the Private Sector.

— Elaine Chao

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

— Mother Teresa

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

— Maimonides

Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.

— Jewel

Fueled by the kindness and generosity of strangers, 'Food for the Poor' builds houses for people.

— Mike Gallagher

To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.

— Rowan Williams

If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.

— Manoj Bhargava

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

— Baruch Spinoza

✗Opposing Perspectives

We believe that housing is a power platform to spark great opportunities in people's lives and help them achieve the American dream.

— Julian Castro

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.

— Graham Nash