“We cannot dismantle recovery and housing pathways, watch homelessness increase, and then threat and then treat the people living outside as the problem.”

“Disbanding the encampments is not the correct decision. It is kicking the can down the road and wishing for someone else to deal with the problem. It is shameful, cruel, and inhumane.”

“No matter who does it or the reasons they give, every eviction from a camp, from housing, a foreclosure of an owned home, everyone is a botched public policy and a moral failure. Every single eviction every time.”

“It is no housing. Y'all say affordable housing. I get social security. $800 and something dollars. That don't do nothing. We need deeply affordable housing. And when do we need it? We need it now.”

“How can we move on when they throwing away our IDs, they throwing away our social security card, throwing away every single possession that we have? How can we better ourselves when the people that you hire is doing this [...] to us?”

“I am grateful for their hard work, but to inform many of you who have never interacted with a person living on the streets, those relationships take weeks or months to build, and a sweep can destroy that trust in one single morning.”

“Our data shows that the overdose rate consistently spikes in the wake of a sweep up to up to two weeks after. I'll say that again. The overdose risk of not just encampment residents as of everybody spikes in the two weeks following a sweep.”

“If you separate us all, we won't be able to even have a say cuz we're scattered. We're a community, a community that that most of us were taxpayers, voters, and we will be again.”

“I feel more home outside in these encampments than I do in in a shelter. That's not right. I should not feel threatened in a shelter.”

“To tear down these encampments is is like saying that we don't care what happens to you. We don't care if you get murdered, raped. I have lost many friends out here who I consider family more than my own.”

“We are not animals and we deserve to get treated like human beings. I don't know what we're going to do. A lot of us don't have family to help us. We are struggling, but we live together. Let us live. No evictions on stolen land. Please don't take away our homes.”

“Assistant Mayor Baker, I heard you earlier say we want to look at creative solutions. I am so in so in for creative solutions. Those come before we do camp closures. This is putting This is putting the cart before the horse.”

“The eth amendment of the constitution forbids cruel and unusual punishment. Unfortunately, this plan isn't unusual. other cities do it, but you cannot convince me that it's not cruel.”