Terence Lester Ph D
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How Public Policy Harms the Unhoused Community | Homesick Documentary
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October 7, 2024
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31:01Now PlayingDespite a bed shortage, many cities and states have enacted legislation banning sleeping in public and other activities essential to the survival of people experiencing homelessness instead of creating more access to beds and affordable housing. On July 1, 2022, House Bill 978 (in Tennessee) became the first policy to make sleeping outdoors a Class E felony and passed into state law in the United States.
This bill expanded the Equal Access to Public Property Act of 2012 and made sleeping outside punishable by up to 6 years in prison. This policy reveals how power and social constructions can be used to target, define, and criminalize the unhoused.
The documentary “Homesick,” is an ethnographic account of Dr. Lester’s doctoral research based on street interviews in Tennessee of what people experiencing homelessness think about public policy in real-time and how it affects their sense of self-worth.
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