ABSTRACT

This article contributes to the growing body of work exploring governmentality theory in housing and homelessness law by engaging, for the first time, a Foucauldian neoliberal, governmentality and risk framework to the recently enacted Homelessness Reduction Act 2017. This article locates the place of governmental activity to be scrutinized as the homeless population and contends that the Homelessness Reduction 2017 (‘HRA 17ʹ) can be interpreted as operating according to three intersecting modes of problematization of the homeless: (1) biopolitical problematization; (2) governmental problematization; and (3) ethical problematization. In so doing, this article reveals that the 2017 Act reflects a shift in neoliberal thinking on homelessness in constructing images of the homeless as a “risk population”, as subjectified, autonomized individuals exhorted to self-work and ethical self-fashioning as responsibilized citizens taking account of their own housing precarity.

摘要

本文有助于工作探索治理性理论在住房和无家可归者法律越来越多的参与，第一次，一个福柯新自由主义，治理性和风险框架，最近颁布的减少无家可归2017年法本文所在的地方将政府活动作为无家可归者进行审查，并认为《 2017年减少无家可归者》（HRA 17ʹ）可解释为根据对无家可归者进行问题化的三种相交模式进行：（1）生物政治问题化；（2）政府问题化；（3）道德问题。通过这样做，本文揭示了《 2017年法令》反映了新自由主义关于无家可归者思想的转变，即在将无家可归者形象化为“高风险人群”时，主观的，自律的人被鼓励从事自谋职业和道德上的自我塑造，成为负责任的公民考虑到自己的住房不稳定。