Don Mitchell on anti-homeless laws in the US.

“The anti-homeless laws being passed in city after city in the United States work in a pernicious way: by redefining what is acceptable behavior in public space, by in effect annihilating the spaces in which the homeless must live, these laws seek simply to annihilate homeless people themselves, all in the name of recreating the city as a playground for a seemingly global capital which is ever ready to do an even better job of the annihilation of space.”

Don Mitchell, ‘The Annihilation of Space by Law: The Roots and Implications of Anti-homeless Laws in the United States’ in Blomley, Delaney, and Ford (eds.) The Legal Geographies Reader (2001) 12.