Tulsa

“99% of the people, they just leave because this is a lifestyle and they haven't hit rock bottom yet. And they're literally just getting on the train tracks and walking on to the next community.”

“We removed about 1.9 million pounds of trash and debris, needles, drug paraphernalia.”

“There were 64 different camps, and you'd be shocked, like literally right off the highway in some wooded areas, some encampments behind people's houses.”

“I sent my highway patrol in to clean up Tulsa. And we first went in and told them, you're not allowed to camp here. Ah, we gave them one day to get away, and then the next day we showed up, and we basically said, we're going to give you a couple options. We wi…”

“The other thing, Joe, that I think is interesting, from our surveys, around 45% of the homeless in Tulsa were from out of state.”

“You can never build enough houses for homeless because you're just going to keep attracting more and more and more people.”