anti_957 antixml-alsv1.cls (1994/07/13 v1.2u Standard LaTeX document class) 10-11-2011 :881 ANTI anti_957 Dispatch: 10-11-2011 CE: N/A 1 Journal MSP No. No. of pages: 21 PE: Kirsten 2 3 4 Governing the Homeless in an Age 5 of Compassion: Homelessness, 6 7 Citizenship, and the 10-Year Plan 8 9 to End Homelessness in King 10 County Washington 11 12 13 Tony Sparks 14 15 Department of Geography, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, USA; 16
[email protected] 17 18 Abstract: In 2001, President Bush announced his intention to “end chronic homeless 19 by the year 2012” as part of his broad “Compassion Agenda”. Since then, departmental 20 consolidation, changes in funding allocation, and continued decentralization of services 21 provision have dramatically reshaped the landscape of homeless service provision in the US. In this paper I examine how these roll-out policies reify and re-entrench liberal equations of 22 property with rational self-governance at the local scale. Particularly, I illustrate how tropes 23 of homeless otherness work alongside and through federal neoliberal roll-out policies to 24 exclude homeless voices from the formation of local social policy. In doing so, I attempt to 25 call attention to the mutually constitutive relationship between the spatial management of homeless bodies, tropes of homeless deviance and dependence, and limits to citizenship 26 in the context of neoliberal urban governance. 27 28 Keywords: homelessness, social policy, citizenship, urban governance 29 30 31 32 Introduction 33 The consumer advisory counsel meeting of the Committee to End Homelessness in 34 King County (CEHKC) was proceeding as usual.