Abstract
In December 2001, Osaka City built and opened an emergency shelter for homelessness that has been living with pitching tents in Nagai Park. I did interviewing with them about their situation, their wish, and also how they thought of the city policy and the support programs of the shelter. It is figured out as follows; (1) the main purpose of the shelter construction was to remove the tents from the park. On the process the city staffs persuade them to remove from the park or enter the shelter, there seems to be many homelessness who moved to other parks or streets. (2) as for the explanation and behavior of the city staff are not so appreciated by many people. (3) even though some people entered the shelter, they have anxiety for the next step and their own future. On the other hand, there is a few enthusiastic staff who makes effort to connect homelessness to social welfare system. These staff actions make me think that the homeless issues and conflicts in the park are not the issues of park management itself. We need to figure out a new policy for total park management linked with social welfare system, medical care support system, community business and community developement. In order to do that, a round table would be necessary where all stakeholders (homelessness, city staffs in all department, local residents, homelessness support groups and NPOs) can figure out what they could do for total park management and support programs for homelessness in order to get their own community more revitalized.
