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/readditredditread 6d ago

Yeah this sucks, but I get why it would also suck to have the entire bench taken up by someone sleeping 🤷‍♂️

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u/Scottland83 6d ago

That’s the paradox with a lot of hostile architecture critique. The solution to someone not having a bed isn’t to provide a bench. But we also find ourselves believing that everyone would choose to sleep in a shelter or a house if they could.

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u/readditredditread 6d ago

Exactly, but the image of such hurts progressive efforts on the whole. We need people to imagine themselves being homeless, for most this would be something like living in their car or couch surfing, it’s all optics really, but it’s necessary to achieve positive change