What Does the ‘Right’ to Be Homeless Mean?

A small tent covered with a blue tarp is set up on a city sidewalk in front of a red wall with graffiti and red dumpsters, serving as a stark reminder of the ongoing struggle for the legal rights of homeless individuals.

Postdoctoral Fellow and Assistant Professor of Sociology Neil Gong explores California’s strategy of “tolerant containment” as it applies to the state’s homelessness problem and what it means with an eviction crisis on the horizon.

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