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Seriously what the fuck you spent money on those donate to a homeless shelter instead you fucking demons
This is more common than you may think. Many urban areas that have high homeless populations are using “defensive architecture” more and more. Sloped and divided benches to keep the homeless from sleeping on them. Spikes placed in sheltered areas where they tend to stay. City planners argue they are only trying to relocate the homeless, pushing them to see out shelters and homeless centers. But that rings hollow. They just want them out of sight. I don’t have a simple, easy solution. But this isn’t it. Making things harder for the homeless does not help them.
All these corporations have so much money to spend it on putting spikes on places where homeless people sleep yet absolutely NOTHING goes to those who are homeless. This country really doesn’t give a fuck about the well being of homeless people at all
this is heartbreaking fr .
By the way you can remove these spikes with wither a sledgehammer and a heavy metal spike (sharpened crowbar with a downwards slant and the handle removed or something similar) or a concrete saw if you’ve got one of those. It’s illegal to do but it also only takes about an hour if there aren’t too many spikes.
Alternatively, if you put a mattress over them they become useless, although you do risk having the city take the mattress. Normally they don’t reinstall the spikes if you keep removing them.
As for the benches, a concrete or hand held circular saw can cut off the arm rests of the benches with too many arm rests to sleep on. Just remember: Wear protective goggles and practice proper safety if using power tools. All of this stuff can be bought at Home Depot or your local variant of Home Depot.
For legal purposes I have to advise you that this is illegal and I’m not advising you to do this.
remember: they can’t catch you if you’re faster than they are!
Also!! If you wear a hard hat- orange construction vest and carry a clipboard people are more likely to believe your legit and not call the cops on you
ok, that last one is pretty good advice
Also, it is literally cheaper to house a homeless person than to build one of these. We need to get together enough of the people who decide to put these things up and get it through their skulls that together if they put the money they would otherwise spend on each building this into actually housing the homeless, it would be cheaper and they would look good doing it and it would deal with the homeless using their buildings and benches as shelter. (I would use the argument of compassionate and human rights, but as evidenced from these devices, rubbing two empathy cells together is too much for these douchebags)
Prosperity gospel and extreme protestantism are the real issue.
They don’t care that it costs more, because housing people would be giving people something they haven’t earned.
And dealing with that cruel element in our society is inevitably going to take time.
I just read an article about a town that went, ‘well, treating homeless for Covid, etc is really hard.’ So they bought an empty hotel to house people, so they can treat them (for Covid, & other problems). They literally realized it was cheaper & more effective to buy a hotel & stabilize housing than try a homeless shelter (many of which use large room dormitory-style beds) or try to chase down transients to get them treatment.
Multiple programs have proved, solve the housing 1st & the rest will follow.
Housing first is the solution.
Look.
I don’t like seeing people sleeping in the street either. I really don’t.
But I don’t want them to be moved on to anywhere but a bed.
@lacommunarde I’m not 100%, but I think it could possibly be a tax write off. Would love if any could confirm or find possibilities.
