Planning for and Against Vehicular Homelessness

Giamarino, Christopher; Brozen, Madeline; Blumenberg, Evelyn

doi:10.1080/01944363.2022.2050936

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“… 69 Some interventions can increase the safety of unsheltered living arrangements, such as safe parking or camping areas. 70 Finally, evidence from Japan suggests that cash transfers delivered through basic income programs or benefit enrollment initiatives may hasten the transition from the streets. 71 Ultimately, however, any durable solution will require increased shelter inventory and a better understanding of the barriers to shelter entry.…”

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Unsheltered Homelessness and Health: A Literature Review

Richards

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2023

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Unsheltered Homelessness and Health: A Literature Review

Richards

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2023

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“…When not staying with friends or being able to rent a room, most homeless people I have known sleep in their private vehicles, not "on the streets" and certainly not in shelters. It is therefore the use of parking restrictions, as well as the racking up of parking tickets and general "policing of car space" that should be considered alongside other forms of low-level criminalisation across public space (Bloch 2021;Giamarino et al 2023).…”

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“…It is therefore the use of parking restrictions, as well as the racking up of parking tickets and general “policing of car space” that should be considered alongside other forms of low‐level criminalisation across public space (Bloch 2021; Giamarino et al. 2023).…”

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A Legal Geography of Prison and Other Carceral Spaces

Bloch

2024

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As scholars apply the concept of “the carceral” to more and increasingly diffuse spaces of containment, displacement, and cordoning across free society, I call for a means by which “carcerality” is measured and understood as a productive force in the denial of constitutional rights and protections. I therefore provide a legal reading of carcerality, which establishes prisons as the sine qua non of the carceral landscape, preceded by an analysis of how the reliance on civil law, nuisance ordinances, and other methods of constitutional circumvention in the absence of criminal procedure works within the public sphere to punish residents residing within what Foucault called the carceral archipelago. Along the way I provide vignettes about my own experience with the legal and insidious forms of criminalisation and non‐criminal punishment that comprise the carceral continuum.

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“…As unsheltered homelessness is growing in the Western United States (US), the habitation of vehicles as an affordable housing option is increasing (Berton, 2020;Carlton and Parker, 2020;Giamarino et al, 2023). Local governments rely on punitive pushes (Pruss and Cheng, 2020) to control vehicle residency's burgeoning growth, while activists and a budding group of researchers work to reduce the harm and precariousness of living in vehicles by reforming punitive vehicle towing and vehicle dwelling regulations (Giamarino et al, 2023;Pruss, 2023). This study aims to add to this nascent group of research by investigating vehicle residents' information practices in Santa Cruz, California (CA), a coastal community with a historically large vehicle residency population, that recently passed a law to banish oversized vehicles from city limits.…”

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Mapping the road ahead: understanding social factors that shape vehicle residents’ information grounds

Montague

2024

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Introduction. An estimated one million people currently inhabit vehicles as their primary method of housing in publicly accessible areas across the United States. Few studies have investigated this untraditionally housed population, as separate from traditional homelessness, and no other studies have been found that currently explore vehicle resident’s information behaviours. This paper offers preliminary findings from an ethnographic study that explores vehicle residents’ information practices. Method. This work is based on four months of ethnographic research involving participant observation in Santa Cruz, California, which aimed to understand vehicle residents’ information needs and access and the ways that various factors shaped their information practices. Analysis. Ethnographic field notes were analysed using the constant comparative method. Induction was used to identify and categorize recurring conceptualizations and phenomena. Results. Preliminary findings build upon previous research on information grounds. Initial results indicate that marginalizing policies, and in turn, social exclusion, created vibrant environments for information grounds to develop. Conclusion. Geographic locations and movements influence vehicle residents’ information practices. Gaining a deeper understanding of these practices inform both theoretical implications for the information behaviour field and practical implications for local and federal governments to deliver support rather than create marginalizing policies for vehicle residents.

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Planning for and Against Vehicular Homelessness

Cited by 9 publications

References 35 publications

Unsheltered Homelessness and Health: A Literature Review

Unsheltered Homelessness and Health: A Literature Review

A Legal Geography of Prison and Other Carceral Spaces

Mapping the road ahead: understanding social factors that shape vehicle residents’ information grounds

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