With growing levels of homelessness, many municipalities in western jurisdictions are increasing social control of public displays of poverty through criminalisation, marginalisation and banishment. This has recently been apparent in England with the introduction of public spaces protection orders. Based on notions of localism, these grant local government significantly enhanced powers to regulate public space. This article uses the English example to provide a critical, empirically informed, exploration of how populist neo-liberal rationalisations about the street poor are finding increasing favour among local authorities. It charts how in a period of austerity, with municipalities struggling to fulfil welfare obligations to the homeless and other poor, banishment provides a cheaper solution to citizens’ concerns about visible displays of poverty in public space. The article investigates the troubling ways in which municipalities endorse a neo-liberal authoritarian approach to public consultations to claim legitimacy for introducing measures that target vulnerable minorities. It also examines how opponents, with limited success, have challenged such measures and the predominant neo-liberal–populist narrative associated with them.

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将穷人驱逐出公共空间：在城市层面推动和对抗新自由化

随着无家可归的人数不断增加，西方司法管辖区的许多城市正在通过刑事定罪、边缘化和放逐来加强对公开贫困的社会控制。最近，随着公共空间保护令的出台，这在英国已经很明显。基于地方主义的概念，这些赋予地方政府显着增强的管理公共空间的权力。本文使用英语示例对有关街头穷人的民粹主义新自由主义合理化如何越来越受到地方当局的青睐提供了批判性的、经验丰富的探索。它描绘了在紧缩时期，市政当局如何努力履行对无家可归者和其他穷人的福利义务，放逐为公民对公共空间可见的贫困现象的担忧提供了一种更便宜的解决方案。这篇文章调查了市政当局通过新自由主义威权主义方法进行公众咨询以主张采取针对弱势少数群体的措施的合法性的令人不安的方式。它还研究了成功有限的反对者如何挑战这些措施以及与之相关的主要新自由主义-民粹主义叙事。