Despite considerable national and urban prosperity, significant numbers of Australians are homeless. How local governments engage with homelessness has significant implications for the homeless population. In recent years, municipal strategies have inclined towards the maintenance of public order at the cost of the rights of homeless individuals. In this article, we investigate the approach to homelessness proposed by the City of Melbourne in 2017, which centered on the expansion of powers to remove individuals and the confiscation of possessions, testing the council’s claims as to the impact of visible homelessness upon local businesses and upon other users of public spaces.

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“宜居城市”中的无家可归者：墨尔本市对无家可归者的回应

尽管国家和城市繁荣昌盛，但仍有大量澳大利亚人无家可归。地方政府如何与无家可归者打交道，对无家可归的人口产生重大影响。近年来，市政战略倾向于以牺牲无家可归者的权利为代价来维护公共秩序。在本文中，我们调查了墨尔本市在2017年提出的解决无家可归问题的方法，该方法以扩大个人移徙的权力和没收财产为中心，检验了市议会关于可见无家可归对当地企业和社会的影响的主张。对其他公共场所的使用者。