01886nam a22001697a 4500999001900000008004100019100003400060245009500094260002700189300003200216520119700248650010801445773002701553906002201580942000701602952010701609  c528049d528049241105b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aPrzybylinski, Stephen 959422  a From rejection to legitimation: Governing the emergence of organized homeless encampments  aUrban Affairs Review    a60(1), Jan, 2024: p.118-148  aThis paper analyzes the City of Portland, Oregon's recent zoning code amendment which legalized sanctioned homeless encampments. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in Portland, the paper details how the City Government's long-held opposition to homeless camping shifted to a position of acceptance. The paper identifies the state of emergency (SOE) on housing and homelessness as a critical moment for developing not only a legal foundation, but also a social justification, for legalizing encampments as an official shelter strategy. In contrast to research over the past few decades articulating the camp as the realization of punitive sovereign power, the paper suggests the relationality of emergency governance, or “governing-through-emergency,” instead provides an opportunity to legitimate the lived experiences and desires of unhoused people residing in sanctioned encampments. It concludes by warning that, although emergency governance serves as a critical tool to advance the interests of the unhoused, such governing strategies are limited by structural forces producing homelessness more broadly.- Reproduced

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10780874231162923
  aState of emergency, Emergency governance, Hopelessness, Homeless encampments, Portland, Oregon. 948578  aUrban Affairs Review    aURBAN DEVELOPMENT  cAR  00102ddc40709403128aIIPAbIIPAd2024-11-05h60(1), Jan, 2024: p.118-148pAR133477r2024-11-05yAR