Akadēmiskā · Dienasgrāmata

Everything we call a social or economic opportunity depends cruelly on a person's being able to do certain things-for example, his being able to wash, to sleep, and to base himself somewhere. When someone is homeless he is, as we have seen, effectively banned from doing these things; these are things he is not allowed to do [in public places]. So long as that is the case, it is a contemptible mockery to reassure the victims of such coercion that they have the opportunity to play a full part in social and economic life, for the rules of property are such that they are prohibited from doing the minimum that would be necessary to take advantage of that opportunity.