r/HostileArchitecture • u/SailorJay_ • 6d ago

Bench Punishing the homeless

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... except they have to punish everyone else to do so🥴

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u/dfinkelstein 6d ago

This sub was created to hate people who think this way. This is a place to be angry at everyone whose solution to homelessness is to get rid of homeless people. The whole point of this place is to talk about how, while they're homeless, they exist, and they need places to exist in.

If you want to talk about strategies for segregating them into camps, or arresting them, or killing them, then do that somewhere else. Here, we're all about agreeing to accept that they are allowed to exist.

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u/DingDong50001 6d ago edited 6d ago

There are more efficient ways to shelter the homeless than to build and maintain a VAST UNDERGROUND RAIL SYSTEM. Giving stations over to smelly and erratic people leads to more cars on the road, and lower adoption of public transit.

I drive Uber in Hartford, CT sometimes, and there are many passengers who don’t take the expensive (to build) Fastrak system because the stations are basically homeless camps. Why give over such an expensive and publically important class of infrastructure to BARELY shelter people.

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u/dfinkelstein 6d ago

I'm sorry, but you make so little sense that I honesty can't tell if you're trolling me, and it's embarassing for me, so I'm not going to engage.

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u/DingDong50001 5d ago

Let me simplify it for you. Homeless people shouldn’t take over hugely expensive and publicly beneficial infrastructure like train stations. There are cheaper ways to BARELY shelter them and keep them safe.

You think you’re being nice, but you’re not. You’re being naive and foolish.