The New 'Ugly' Laws: How People Are Pushing Back On America's War on the Houseless
It Could Happen Here
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🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In the late 1800s, many big cities used laws against "ugliness" to cleanse the streets of the disabled, the poor, and the homeless. Fast forward to today, and in the middle of a deepening housing crisis and extreme weather, cities are breaking up encampments and passing new laws to target the most vulnerable. On this episode of It Could Happen Here, guest hosted by It's Going Down, we speak with former squatters, activists resisting sweeps, and houseless folks facing down eviction - to find out how people are pushing back against displacement.
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| 0:00.0 | The War on Drugs is the excuse our government uses to get away with absolutely insane stuff. |
| 0:05.6 | Stuff that'll piss you off. |
| 0:06.8 | The cops, why are they just like looting? |
| 0:09.6 | They're just like pillaging. |
| 0:10.9 | They just have way better names for what they call, like what we would call a jack move or being robbed. |
| 0:17.8 | They call it a civil asset for it. |
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