Homelessness in Brussels - limits of multi-level governance in the application of the principle of spatial justice
(2019) Justice spatiale - Spatial justice — Vol. Autonomy+Development= Spatial (in)justice?, n° 13 (2019)
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- The transformations of the Belgian state entailing multiple transfers of competences from the central state to federated entities has had fundamental territorial consequences on the management of ‘the social question’. The article proposes to study anti-poverty policies (APP) for homeless people in the Brussels-capital region based on successive transformations in the relationship between public actors and the voluntary sector. This analysis focuses on the way spatial and territorial transformations have rearticulated the management of poverty as well as ‘games’ of cooperation or eviction among actors dealing with extreme urban poverty, in which they accept the local poor and reject poor people from elsewhere. By combining insights from sociology and urban planning, the aim is to better understand both issues of multi-level governance in metropolitan areas and how to (try to) counter forms of spatial injustice.
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Malherbe, A., Moriau, J., Rosa, E. c., & Wagener, M. (2019). Homelessness in Brussels - limits of multi-level governance in the application of the principle of spatial justice. Justice spatiale - Spatial justice, Autonomy+Development= Spatial (in)justice?(13). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/169636 (Original work published 2019)