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The Olympics' Hostile Architecture Is a Preview of What's to Come
Under a bridge in Paris, a homeless encampment has been replaced with dozens of giant Lego-like bricks. Campaigners say things will likely get worse at the 2028 Games in LA.
Then on July 17, the police arrived and instructed everyone to leave, as part of a cleanup operation in which authorities put homeless people, members of the Roma community, migrants, and sex workers on buses to other cities, such as Bordeaux or Toulouse. Anti-homeless spikes and rough surfaces installed in a luxury housing complex to deter homeless people from sleeping in the area around the Limehouse Basin marina in London, UKPhotograph: Julio Etchart/ullstein bild via Getty Images “This is part of the displacement and eviction of marginalized populations [that takes place] in the host city to ‘sanitize’ the space so that when journalists and writers, like myself, or Olympic tourists arrive, they aren’t confronted with the realities of dealing with poor people, basically.”
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