[Video Description: An Instagram video by user _glassmuseum, in which they are sitting in front of the camera and speaking. They say, "Everybody wants third spaces... Until a homeless guy shows up. Now, there's a lot of talk about third spaces for a reason." Examples of posts expressing a desire for third spaces show on the screen. "We need places to form community beyond just home and work. But that begs the question of, who gets to be a part of our communities? You want more parks, more libraries," Posts in which people praise parks and libraries show on the screen. "But then you complain when these public infrastructures are, well, public." Posts of people complaining about homeless people in public spaces are shown. "For the unhoused, the importance of public spaces isn't just a matter of wanting somewhere to chill with friends. It's a matter of existence and freedom. In his landmark essay, 'Homelessness And The Issue Of Freedom'," A screenshot of the first page of the essay appears on screen, then a picture of the author. "Jeremy Waldron argues that the freedoms of the poor are disproportionately restricted under the law, since their material conditions coerce them into a state in which they must choose between survival and the violation of the law. He writes that freedom exists for the homeless 'only to the extent that our society is communist'. Now before you're red scare ass starts to hemorrhage over the C word," Memes of people disregarding and making fun of communism are shown. "Let me explain. But first, let's define our terms. Specifically, let's distinguish between positive and negative freedoms. While positive freedom is the capacity to act according to one's free will," The Wikipedia page for Positive Liberty is shown. "Negative freedom is the capacity to act free from the coercion of others." The Wikipedia page for Negative Liberty is shown. "So, things like loitering laws, public indecency violations." Pictures of signs enforcing these laws are shown. "Though they apply to the rich and poor alike, they apply disproportionately to those who possess no private property of their own and thus who exist soley in the collective space. And so while a homeless person may posses the positive freedom to, say, physically lay down in a park," A picture of someone laying on a bench, using a backpack as a pillow. "They have their negative freedom restricted, since they'll be forcibly removed for doing so." A stock photo of police standing over someone sleeping on a bench. "Because of the regulations placed on public spaces that prohibit certain actions that are typically relegated to the private, like sleeping, pissing, showering. All these actions are natural and necessary, and yet they're prohibited in the public space. And this limitation is no problem for owners of private property, since the public is conceived of as being complementary to the private. However, as Waldron notes," An excerpt from the essay is shown on screen, along with the text "Waldron 32". "'This complementarity works only for those who have the benefit of both sorts of places.' So, if you're homeless, you're stuck in a situation where you're forced to violate the law in order to survive. Because in order to exist, one needs somewhere they can exist. There's oftentimes a contradiction with how people consider the homeless, if they even consider them at all. People don't want them pissing in the streets but they also don't want them pissing in the McDonald's bathroom. People don't want encampments," An article about an anti-encampment law in Ontario is shown. "But they also oppose the construction of affordable public hosing." The Wikipedia article for NIMBY, or Not In My Back Yard, is shown. "There seems to be a desire for increased public life, but only a certain kind of public. But if you want to advocate for community building, then we need to reconsider who gets to be a part of our community." /End I.D.]
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