Best quotes by Ted Wheeler on People

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• ‟ I want to be clear: We can address safety and livability issues head-on without criminalizing homelessness. After all, people living on our streets are themselves vulnerable to crime and other hazards.

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• ‟ I was very clear that we'd invest much more in shelter space to get people off the streets, out of doorways, out from overpasses and get them connected with services - whatever services they need, whether it's mental health whether its addiction or economic resources.

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• ‟ The tactics that the Trump administration are using on the streets of Portland are abhorrent. People are being literally scooped off the street into unmarked vans, rental cars, apparently. They are being denied probable cause. And they are denied due process. They don't even know who's pulling them into the vans.

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• ‟ If people are expecting the mayor of Portland to solve the problem of homelessness they're going to be sorely disappointed and that's just the truth.

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• ‟ I think it is extremely inappropriate for people to be blocking traffic, to be harassing people going about their everyday business and violating the law. I do not support that kind of behavior.

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• ‟ Too often, the very institutions that are supposed to protect and serve our community have instead failed people of color, specifically our black community.

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• ‟ When Oregon was founded as a state in 1857, its constitution explicitly banned Black people from visiting, living and owning property here.

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