Socio-mobility

the relational movement of people in a meaningful way

If movement interrupts it can resist dominant spatial forms and policies, i.e. trespassing. Any interruption of high speed, mechanized mobility resists, calls attention to and reveals the inhospitable landscape created by transportation infrastructure and speed itself (Hubbard & Lilley, 2004). Jaywalking, as practiced by the homeless, creates counter-movement, the formation of a personal zone of rebellion and individuality that reasserts the homeless person’s humanity in the face of depersonalized traffic

from dissertation “Homeless negotiations of public space in two California Cities” 2019

The concept of interactive accessibility, an accessibility rooted in the dynamic and unfolding social context, offers the best explanation of homeless movement, its motivations and context. An interactive accessibility foregrounds the social nature of travel, placing movement in a political context where the identity of the traveler, in this case a homeless person, directly informs their movement. Homeless bicyclists engage in a series of spontaneous directional, speed and destination-based decisions while moving.