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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?’”''
— 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>.
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''"Oregon is emerging as a testing ground for a new approach to solving the nationwide shortage of affordable housing." ''
—'''''The Wall Street Journal''''', October 2019. [Parker 2019].
"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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