After 3 years of litigation we finally have codified in law the most basic of property rights for people living without housing in Denver. We have raised our voices in a movement of the poor and homeless to be seen and heard. This battle was won...the war is ongoing... Yesterday, federal Judge Martinez ruled to approve the settlement agreement. The procedures put in law by this settlement to protect people's constitutional right to property and due process will not fully stop the city from sweeping people.

 

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On the tails of the Trump Administration blasting California cities including San Francisco and Los Angeles for the homelessness crisis, and calling for the creation of camps, members of  the Trump administration, including Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson visited San Francisco's Potrero Hill housing development.  

According to Jennifer Friedenbach, Coalition on Homelessness Executive Director, "Look around any major United States city and one can see people who are suffering as a result of the Trump government's indifference to poverty and homelessness.

 

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Anti-homeless policy has been a staple in cities all over the world for decades, whether those policies be forthright, like loitering laws and sit-lie ordinances, or peppered into a city's infrastructure and public spaces. Hostile architecture, sometimes called "defensive architecture", a trend in urban design which discourages the use of spaces in any way other than the intention of the owner or designer, has existed all over the world in various ways, but the most harmful examples have come in the way of targeting the homeless community, an already marginalized group, many of whom look for a place to sleep or rest during the day.

They are met with a lack of access to public space. Specific and egregious examples of hostile architecture and defensive design are prevalent and visible in major American cities.

 

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