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- anarchism@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- cross-posted to:
- anarchism@lemmy.blahaj.zone
transcript [text overlaid on several pictures of benches and outside windowsills. the benches have bars, or gaps to prevent someone from sleeping on them.
text reads “Ban anti-homeless arctithecture”]
sauce: https://mastodon.social/@AnarchistArt/112901196516297447
Hostile architecture is among the symptoms of the hostile modern city, where neighbours never say hi, and people die on the streets as people walk passivly by.
This seems a bit oversimplified. Yes the homeless need a place, and that place should be built and funded. But at least in most of the places I’ve lived there are certain bus stops and parks that are not usable as they are full of homeless and addicts sleeping on all the benches and leaving needles all over (putting these together because this close to methodone clinics many homeless are addicts). It’s unsafe for children (or adults for that matter) to use the parks, nobody can sit at the bus stops and at some stops there’s such a crowd of homeless that people generally avoid them altogether. Would these measures from the picture help? No chance, because the anti homeless benches they’ve built are too small for the pregnant and too uncomfortable for injured and elderly so they’ve made it useless to everyone. I’m sure there’s a reasonable solution where everyone wins, and I’m sure I’ll never see it
So…it’s okay if someone is sleeping on the benches at the bus stop, making it harder for elderly, pregnant, or disabled people to use essential public transportation services?
And what exactly, oh grand liberal genius, is a society designed to produce homeless people supposed to do about it?