The New 'Ugly' Laws: How People Are Pushing Back On America's War on the Houseless

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01/27/23 • 44 min

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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Welcome back once again. This is the crew from It's Going Down, squatting the air waves of it could happen here. On today's show, we're going to look at the growing crisis around homelessness and how the state has moved to address it with brutal sweeps and new laws that target the poor. In the wake of the global COVID nineteen pandemic, the US housing crisis deepened and homelessness grew Following the George Floyd rebellion. Republicans pointed