Welcome back to the Ten Blocks Podcast.

This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Joining me on the

show today is a guest who's been on before, Judge Glock. Judge is the director of research

and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. He

studies economics, finance, and housing with a perspective informed by his broader study of

economic history. Judge has written important essays for City Journal on taxes, homelessness,

economic regulation, and his work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street

Journal, and other publications. He's the author of The Dead Pledge, The Origins of the Mortgage Market and Federal

Bailouts 1913 to 1939. Today, though, we're going to discuss his recent essay, End of the

Encampments, which appears in our summer issue and looks at states and cities' efforts to

remove urban homeless dwellings in public

spaces. So, Judge, great to have you on the show again. Thanks for joining it.

Thank you for having me back, Brian.

So first question, homeless encampments have been a point of growing contention in urban

and increasingly suburban communities across the country

for several years now, maybe going back a decade. Large encampments, sometimes comprising

dozens, even hundreds in some cases of tents, crowded sidewalks, parks, other public spaces.

These are posing health and safety risks to local residents, business owners, and passers-by. And these encampments are known also to be

generators of crime and drug use, lack of sanitation, infrastructure.

There's enormous problems with these structures, I guess you could call them.

As little as two decades ago, you know, the encampments were really unknown in American

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