ABSTRACT
Excessive soup run activity helps to maintain a street lifestyle for people unwilling to come indoors, and draws people out of accommodation and back into street culture.
Westminster Council (both quoted in Lane and Power 2009)
The serving of food to the hungry is an iconic image of human care for those in severe need, particularly those without a home in which to keep and prepare their own food. In this chapter I set out the story of an attempt by one of London’s local authorities – Westminster City Council (the council) – to ban, through a bye-law, soup runs serving food to the homeless in part of their area.
