By Mariann Dósa and Éva Tessza Udvarhelyi , A Város Mindenkié (The City is for All),
Budapest, Hungary
avarosmindenkie@gmail.com
The socio-spatial exclusion of street homeless people is
a powerful trend in many cities all over the world. While
according to Doherty et al. (2008), these processes are
less pervasive in Europe than in the US, a number of
post-socialist countries stand out with a revival of antihomeless
policies. Hungary, in particular, has recently
experienced a surge in exclusionary practices and
policies both locally and nationally. From a broader perspective,
since Hungary’s transition from state socialism
to neoliberal capitalism in the 1980s, there has been a
general tendency towards institutionalizing the exclusion
and criminalization of poor and marginalized groups. In
the following, we will first look at the history of homelessness
in Hungary over the past decades, then we will
give an overview of the responses the state has offered
as well as the reasons for the growing criminalization of
homelessness.
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