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—'''Psalms 74:20''', as presented in ''The Book of Common Prayer'', 1549 / 1559 / 1662). Quoted in Gauldie, Enid. (1974). ''Cruel Habitations: a history of working-class housing 1780-1918.''
 
 
''“The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.”''
 
—'''Confucius''' (551–479 BC)
 
More literal translation: “If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things."
 
Proverb form: Simplified Chinese: 名正才能言順. Pinyin: Míng zhèng cáinéng yán shùn. Google Translate: "Only with a right name."
 
Chengyu (four-character idiom): 名正言順. Míng zhèng yán shùn. ("call things by their own names." i.e. legitimate, valid, true.
 
 
''"First, the taking in of scattered particulars under one Idea, so that everyone understands what is being talked about ... Sec­ond, the separation of the Idea into parts, by dividing it at the joints, as nature directs, not breaking any limb in half as a bad carver might."''
 
—'''Plato''' (ca 428-348 BC), Phaedrus'''Phaedrus,'' 265D. (also frontispiece quote in Christopher Alexander, ''Notes on the Synthesis of Form,'' 1964).
 
 
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—'''Charles Abrams''', ''The Future of Housing''. 1946. 
 
 
''Their watching faces,''
 
''as I walk the autumn road''
 
''make me a traveler.''
 
—Richard Wright, ca.1959.
 
 
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"''Liminality '' (from the Latin word for threshold) is a term..for a variety of ''states of passage, ''through which designated members of a given culture travel at specified times...Because they occupy no fixed status in the liminal state, they are considered ambiguous beings--even dangerous--and their presence is subject to ritual regulation. Special precautions are taken to separate them from ordinary social life...[Liminal states] share a suspension of the commonplace; intermingling with unfamiliar others in strange settings; and a heightened sense of uncertainty, of things being unfinished and in process.  Although liminal passages are usually undertaken in well-mapped territory from which the voyager is expected to return, ''occasionally the process stalls....We will argue that what unites the phenomena gathered up in the term homelessness is liminality (resolved or stalled) and abeyance gone awry." ''
 
— from '''Kim Hopper''' & Jim Baumohl. "Redefining the Cursed Word: A Historical Interpretation of American Homelessness." in [Baumohl 1996].
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     —'''Carl Abbott''', PhD, Professor & Chair, College of Planning & Public Health, Portland State University. (ca 2004). Used as prefatory quote in 2004 "Dignity Village Proposal, 2004-" by Dignity Village Council and City Repair Project. 
 
 
''"Portland continues to stand out as the progressive example of a municipality embracing alternative types of housing for homeless persons."''
 
—'''Lynne Dearborn & Abbilyn Harmon'''. "Tent Cities." In ''The Encyclopedia of Housing,'' 2nd Edition, 2012.
 
 
''Villages / tent cities are "simultaneously the most and the least radical response to a disturbing crisis."''
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''"I want a left that can operate on all scales."''
 
  —'''Daniel Immerwarh''', author of ''Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development'' (2015).
 
 
''"As an outreach worker for Portland nonprofit JOIN, Lio Alaalatoa spends his evenings patrolling the streets, stopping any time he sees a chance to make contact with someone the rest of society has forgotten. Alaalatoa is from Samoa, and has worked for Portland's JOIN for 18 years.''
 
''<nowiki/>'When I’m out here, it doesn’t really feel like work,' he says from the driver’s seat, one hand on the steering wheel and the other poised to wave to familiar faces. 'It’s like I’m back home. Back home, you’d go out at night and just talk to anybody who was hanging out in the village.'''
 
''“'When I go home now and tell people about what I do for a living, they don’t understand,' he said. 'They don’t understand the basic concept of homelessness. They ask me, ‘What about their families?’''
 
''"His approach is simple: 'I just go out and talk to my friends.'”''
 
— from Griffin, Anna. "'''Lio Alaalatoa''' spends nights on the streets, handing out food, water, blankets — and hope." with photography by Thomas Boyd. ''The Oregonian'', January 31, 2015. <nowiki>https://www.oregonlive.com/projects/portland-homeless/join.html</nowiki>.
 
 
"''All economies are mining boom towns on one time scale or another. All cities are tent-cities.''"
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''"Oregon is emerging as a testing ground for a new approach to solving the nationwide shortage of affordable housing."&nbsp;''
 
—'''''The Wall Street Journal''''', October 2019. [Parker 2019].&nbsp;
 
 
"I'm just one of those people that's always on the move, not always willingly. That's just how my life has gone."
 
—'''Naida Lavon''', quoted in "For Portland, Ore., Woman, Home These Days Is Where She Parks Her Minivan," by Nellie Gilles, ''All Things Considered'', June 23, 2020.
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"There’s no such thing as agency when you become unhoused: There’s a belief system that these programs have that beggars can’t be choosers."
 
-'''Theo Henderson'''. <nowiki>https://www.curbed.com/2020/10/theo-henderson-has-influence-but-no-house.html</nowiki>.
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