The spaciocide against homeless occupation is a landscape designed to strip bare the homeless right where they stand. It amounts to a complete negation of homeless rights, infrastructure, and ability to acquire jobs and services that exist outside of designated shelters and providers where the homeless can be tracked. — Design Observer
Bryan Finoki describes the nature of spaciocide against homeless occupation.
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This is a fantastic article and I'm so glad it ended up on Archinect ( I read it earlier this week but haven't had time to get it up, thank you, Nam).
...“homeless” as a category that represents the state's rendering of the poor into near right-less bodies...
This sentence reminded me of Mitch McEwen's post here on Archinect referencing the NYC cabaret laws entitled I Can't Breathe = You Can't Dance.
Also: did anyone else ever intentionally break a thermometer as a kid to play with the mercury globules that fell out of it? You can push them all around but never grab them. This is exactly what we're doing with homeless people: making new regulations that move these bodies away from some places and into different places and then on and on. Eventually we'll have to deal with the actual problems that lead to homelessness rather than the bodies that are homeless.
Donna, Have you heard of Sam Tsemberis? He actually has a proven solution to the problem of homelessness.
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