I remember that meme where it was like "cutting homeless people in half by 2022" and people were joking about the wording. Ney York would physically cut homeless in half if they could legally get away with it lol.
@@Voltaphonic it was by the artist fokawolf, he puts up loads of fake posters around birmingham. You'll always spot one any time you go into digbeth especially.
Same happened in Sydney, the city councils decided to make outdoors seats and bus stop areas as uncomfortable for homeless people as possible. Added unnecessary arm rests and lumpy gaps. Yet the root cause of homelessness is never addressed. Often mental health issues going on.
I was homeless in NYC several years ago. I'm a veteran and was in a horribly violent situation. I escaped, but I'll NEVER forget my time in the cold, flagging, holes in my shoes and bruises on my body. Sheer insanity!!! Thank you for posting this! ❤❤❤
How do you help someone who don't want help? There are MANY people who like that they have no responsibility, bills, or anything else tying them down. They live the ability to travel and see the country. You're assuming that these are victims because you don't approve of their life style. As someone who has been homeless. Trust me tossing money at this issue will fix nothing. Because there are millions of people who don't want a home.
@@usagifang what conclusion did you come up with to call them a trumptard? Weird insult and proof of idiocy of someone that disagrees with whats right.
@@TheDarkoricle Quite ironic how you target them based on them talking shit about Trump, then go on to say "oh well the guy they insulted was right tho" kinda hypocritical. Yeah, why don't I agree with a guy who unironically believes that people don't want homes. You know? Because logic.
@@lad4830 the thing about the overpopulation myth is that it’s only a problem insofar as more people means more resources being consumed, and I don’t know if you noticed but homeless people don’t generally consume a lot of resources.
The most infuriating aspect is that these things cost more than a normal vent covers / benches. The same applies to all the other so-called "hostile architecture" installments. So, not only are the people who install them refusing to help the poor, they actually pay money to make their life even more miserable. Therefore, i refer to those things not as "hostile architecture" but as "sadistic architecture".
Local authorities spend vastly, vastly more money in punishing homeless people for simply existing than they ever would do if they did anything to help accommodate and help them move out of their situation.
Fun story, there was a guy who was dedicated to creating affordable portable housing for the homeless in California and they shut it down for "not being safe to live in".
What the hell is an affordable portable house? That doesn't solve the problem at all. The problem was never that the homeless didn't have a roof over their head but that there were too many of them in the cities that the cities want to be able to permanently kick out.
@@GeorgeMonet if you have a roof and the assurance that your things won't be stolen from you it's easier to find a Job and start saving money to scape poverty. So yes, no having a home is a problem that keep homeless people homeless
@@sixfeetundertheradar6080 dude in my new apartment that I'm watching for my brother cause people keep breaking in, I found a full on twin sized grocery bag mattress and it was the coolest thing I've seen in a while. Some serious ingenuity!
@@Professor-id4jh as someone whom you Westerner might call "third world country", I surely do live a way better life than I would ever do if I lived where you do. At least we get to see our parents each day after waking up 😉
The best part of this is that, despite however many millions this somehow cost, it isn’t going to stop anyone. A couple of blankets or a few pieces of cardboard plus a bit of positioning is all it takes to overcome that. Plus if you’re actually freezing, a little discomfort is not a problem.
You’re crazy $1000?? The design fees alone for the drafting and development gotta be several thousand. Actually producing it probably over a thousand for like 10 feet of it
@@RU-vidCommenter7402when the government is paying the winning design will usually be someone involved with the committee choosing the design and suddenly a £10,000 ,design is valued as 1 000 000
@@RU-vidCommenter7402the cost of labor alone to build one of these is easily over $1k. Add an additional $1k minimum for installation. Then add hundreds of thousands for R&D, hundreds of thousands for permits & licensing, hundreds of thousands to hire an attorney to draft necessary paperwork, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. This would easily cost $10 million as a city-wide project
@@ReigoVassal I have a better idea. If all the socialists and corporatists politicians die, then there will be no more homelessness for generations to come.
Damn. As a brazilian, I never wanna visit US. The place looks so depressing. There's people who work until exhaustion and can't buy a house and there's people who are seen as rats, not beeing welcome in anywhere. Actually, these two types of people don't seem so different. Both are doomed.
Being a veteran myself (along with my son and grandfather), why should WE get taken care of but people who DIDN'T serve not get taken care? We're all humans. There are shitty veterans, good veterans, shitty homeless veterans, and good homeless veterans. ALL veterans get lifetime benefits. The VAST majority of homeless veterans could get a permanent and total unemployability rating and receive $4,000+ PER MONTH, TAX FREE, that includes free public transportation, discounts, and in some states pay no property taxes, and more but they refuse to go through with VA evaluation because most homeless "veterans" are either dishonorably discharged and ineligible for benefits or they have a mental illness and are not wanting help. We need to treat everyone equally and stop putting certain groups on pedestals.
@@chadcoady9025It's hilarious how psychologically addicted people are now to try to help others then helping their own selves. People now are so dependent of others around them its mind blowing, just world of 5 year olds. I don't understand at all why it would be my responsibility to stop living my own life to help someone else's who can't even help themselves in anything. Yet people out there can't even help themselves in anything to begin with, therefore how are you supposed to help someone else? Only you can help yourself out of your own problems, not other's. If you're a so called grown human being and you still need to be held by the hand by others around you, you never had something that's called discipline and self dependence withing your life.
@@thatscrazy6373 Did you just pull that out of your ass? The point of these structures are to get them off the streets and into to shelters and then on to secure housing. During covid they were spread out among hotels and shelters to stop the spread.
@@mikel8850 "remember many homeless don't want to get helped". Where are you getting this from? The homeless population are overwhelmingly people with mental illness issues who NEED help....
@@mikel8850 my logic is perfectly fine. I literally quoted you, then made a statement pertaining to the broadest issue of homelessness in general. And no. I did not refute your point outside of your sweeping statement that most don't want to be helped because I agree with the rest of what you said. However I also have to disagree with berating people for raising issue with the air vents as it's just unnecessarily cruel on the homeless that might rely on such things as sources for heat as the help that we argue they do indeed need does not currently exist....
Thank you so much for treating people who have hit rock bottom, whose lives are basically living hell and are struggling to survive one more day like absolute shit. Now they'll never try to feel like they deserve to be treated kindly ever again! That'll teach em!
If I may shed a light on the perspective of the western "elites" which I have some personal "education" of their views on - they genuinely have no desire to ever fix the homeless problem because they don't view it as a problem but as a necessary evil, they don't want them dirtying up the main city streets but they do want them in the alleys and under the bridges and so forth, mostly out of sight but always a ghost in the background. They are realists who believe there will always be those that can't function in and will suffer in any society of any construct but capitalism is the best system for raising the common standards of living for all of society - and there must be 3 classes - upper, middle and lower. Survival of the fittest means those who have the drive, work ethic and ambition for it can elevate themselves to the middle class while the lower class is always there to scare them into keeping the middle class grind going. What is great about American capitalism is that with enough drive (or ruthlessness) anyone can potentially elevate themselves all the way into the upper class, it's not a closed club with entry only for those that are chosen by the royalty but rather anyone that can figure out how to make money can have money and buy an extraordinary standard of living in the upper echelon of society. That lack of motivation from combined fear and enticing reward is IMHO the main reason no "true" communist utopia has been achieved and why all attempts have fallen into generic authoritarianism - without the fear of poverty and/or the dream of wealth there's little to motivate people to keep up the daily grind to keep society chugging and so eventually it always leads to brainwashing and the constant fear of Big Brother lurking over your shoulders ready to punish you for a bad social credit score that keeps it going. When virtually all manual labor jobs can be done by machines,, which though huge strides are being made is still a ways off, then maybe that system could exist without the people having to do the grinding and thus lack of motivation is irrelevant, but theorizing of what could be is like counting the stars or grains of sand in an hourglass. Some day I bet Star Trek will come true and a perceived "utopia" will exist but till then human reality will never be as perfect as some want to imagine it, there's a reason the realists are largely at the top of every society regardless of ideology - human nature is a hard thing to change but simply accepting it can bring great wealth and power.
@@jonnygrey3497 while i don't believe that the youtube comments section is the best for debate, i respectfully disagree. Since you argue about realism, the idea that drive and ambition is what gets you up the ladder is false. Its actually opportunity, often in addition to money that does that. Money buys education, shelter, food, security and other basic necessities. Opportunity is created/seen when people have the luxury not to worry about the basics. So yes, while it is "realistic" that "we can't save 'em all", neither is spending money on yachts. So i respecty disagree that most people on top are realists.
@@jonnygrey3497 Capitalism is quite young. 300 years ago, if you were homeless in a city, you probably just died when winter came and there literally wasn't enough food to go around. Now, the homeless get to suffer instead. I would not be surprised if, in my lifetime, homeless people no longer suffer from lack of shelter/food. There's no fucking way capitalism right now is as good as it gets, not when it is so young in the grand scheme of the human species. Capitalism has changed substantially, and it will continue changing, hopefully improving. Some people are crazy and think that the world they grew up in is how the world will be forever. That's not realism. That's an excuse to ignore the suffering of others. Or, an excuse to be lazy. If the world cannot get better, no use in thinking of how it can change, eh? Lazy!
@@charpkun Only being poor in a city makes you a homeless. In the countryside there will always be a place for you and ways to make a humble, but decent living. No lucusy and waste. Live simple clean.
Then they go " *just get a loan to buy a home and work the debt off* " Not really realizing what they suggest is essential impossible, or if it does work, then they'll never be able to pay it off and be basically working for the bank just paying off "interest".
When people make fun of the Eastern Bloc, they are guaranteed to mention those old Soviet apartment buildings for how ugly they looked. The irony of people in a country with anti-homeless designs making fun of someone for building homes for the poor is not lost on me. (Not defending the USSR here, just saying)
They will find a way to counter those vents. Just like when pigeons keep covering the spikes on bus stops and underpasses with hay until the spikes don't hurt anymore.
“No we can’t kill homeless people for being homeless.” “Fine! What if they freeze to death?” “We aren’t going to lock them in freezers!” “I have a better idea.” “Is it a war crime?” “Not the first time.”
My state governor just demoted the homeless shelter that had 500 rooms in 2019 for profiting income apartment by billionaire developers and left thousand homeless families frozen to death through the harsh winter. When we stands up to protest then we got arrested for "illegal late-night" or loitering, lol. Wasn't first they used police to kick them out when they have nowhere to go home to.
Now they can still place planks over the spikes underneath bridges as well as between those protrusions where the air can still come through and put cardboard on top of that then lay down to keep warm for where there is a Will there is a way.” Keep this in mind before you M.A.D. satanist get anymore ideas.”
@@devo076What kind of a r-tard are you? This is a systemic problem in government level, not a problem of people not taking homeless into their own homes. You fukn chicken brain.
@@devo076 should that be the job of the people who have to choose rent or eating well a quarter of the time? Or should that be the job of the government who takes money for these issues, but handles them poorly, if at all?
I lived in Moscow for a year and at that time (not sure if they still do it now) in the winter they left the entrances to the metro open so peope could escape the cold at night. It was only the inital entrance area up to where you enter to buy tickets but it could've been a life saver in the Russian winter.
@@alanequi2786and no money, and no freedom of speech (wait Russian federation can't trashtalk their government so they still have no freedom of speech)
Right? I am so glad I am not the only one thinking about this. I would feel like I would sound pathetic if I said this. Imagine trying so hard to disadvantage someone's life. I do not get the point here.
I feel sorry for homeless people, but as much as I do I wouldn't be pleased if homeless people were camping on my doorstep. And alot of the time homeless people have addictions and leave alot of paraphernalia and mess behind. I've been homeless myself so I am speaking from experience obviously not all of them but alot. The real solution is to provide affordable/ free housing for them
@Lane AWD only way I could agree with housing for homeless people is if it has rules like no alcohol/drugs and you would have to have a job in 1-3 years.
Thank you for speaking out on this. It disgusts me how the government and people in general view the homeless. They're STILL PEOPLE. No one wants to struggle to survive... not knowing when your next meal will be and being in harsh conditions with no shelter... People fail to realize that addiction, mental illness, and the cost of living are the root causes of homelessness. And it can happen to ANYONE. They're worthy of respect and basic human needs/rights just like anyone else.
Let's just drop agent orange across the country too, that will help with over population.. we are supposed to be helping the situation not worsening it
I’m going to quote a comedian who talked about this. It’s not homelessness it’s house less ness a home is a state of being a state of mind a home is a physical tangible Structure
You can always round them up and ship them off to inturnment camps there they will be " off the streets" and the so called charity's can provide "Services" mental health screenings, employment training to become productive members of society, drug and alcohol treatment ehab and once they are "Clean & Sober" put them to work in factory or farm labor. Those found to be too mentally ill will be institutionalized for the "Greater Good of Society" How's *That* for a solution to the "homeless problum?"
@exposing truth Internment camp is also where they put American soldiers & American prisoners of war captured by the Imperial Japanese army during ww2 in basically hitler style concentration camp to torture and kill them...
There seems to be good money in homelessness, just not for the homeless. I bet that grate cost 25k to design, test, fabricate and install. I'd love to see who got the contract on that.
In Nashville they started putting in wheelchair accessible benches. It’s like a bench but you cut out the middle of it… in all reality it’s really an anti homeless bench.
This might sound insensitive but I'm genuinely curious as to the purpose of "Wheelchair Accessible benches" are... because they're already sitting down in the wheel chair. Most of them are really comfortable a soft and have a hand brake of sorts... I don't know, I just don't see a use for it. Especially since it sounds like more effort for someone who lost the use of their legs to move to the bench from a wheelchair
@@geek4306 the only argument is if the bench has a rain/ sun cover over it otherwise they could have just put it at the end of the bench. or even at both ends.
@@geek4306 Honestly, I’m pretty sure it’s less of a comfortability thing and more of a relaxation type of thing. Sometimes they just want to get out of their wheelchairs to sit on a bench just for the satisfaction and relief. Now that shit where they literally cut holes in the sides of benches is kinda stupid.
@@H0DAX1 I can imagine that if they were with family, theyd want to maybe sit next to them or something, I don't know but making a gap in the middle sounds stupid
I mean I understand why your angry but you have to think about the non homeless people who’ve been harassed by the homeless . These homeless have problems man 🤦🏽♂️. They harass a lot of people due drugs, envy, all sorts reasons. Heck some homeless people may rob people so I can’t call nyc terrible you know what I’m saying but the city should put there energy into helping the homeless rather than “evicting” the homeless but I do know you can’t just enable homeless people because it’ll lead to problems like Chicago for example. Chicago has a homeless people problem and it’s disgusting and filled with feces and pee. So you just can’t enable the homeless living near the communities nobody would want that in there neighborhoods.
@@vlahblah4785 wow. Thanks for using logic and critical thinking unlike 90% of the comments. Imagine paying 2200 or more a month in rent only to be harassed or assaulted by a crazy person that resides down on your side walk. That’s a good way to lose a whole lot of revenue. I feel for the mentally ill homeless but any other, if theirs a will theirs a way, like idk.. moving to an affordable city to build your life back up 🤷🏽♂️
@@anthonyfletcher8053 you've never experienced what they do and likely never will. You did not make yourself who you are today on your own. Be grateful and pay it forward.
@@ewokshoterz as someone who’s lived in nyc for a bit to study, i can say that it’s somewhat concerning seeing these people on the streets. Not only is it obviously bad for them, but it’s also bad for the people who live there. I’ve had pretty poor experiences with people, even when minding my own business. Especially if you refuse to give them something IF they ask, some people just shrug it off, others take it the wrong way. It’s also a cause for paranoia ngl, I’ve had someone follow me around for a bit before i got onto campus grounds. I know majority of homeless people aren’t that bad, but it’s the ones who do things like that who cause concern.
@@soggybreh810 Indeed. All the people who got kicked from their jobs and can't find new work too. Just find work! It's that easy. You are on the streets because you were laid off? Go get a job!
When I was young I was hired as a guard to keep people off the grates on my overnight shift on 7th avenue and 47 street. All they wanted to do is stay warm at 2am-4am, so I would allow them. People with kids, people alone, I mean so many people you wouldn't expect are homeless, the only deal I asked was to be gone by 4am and head to another spot, so my boss wouldn't catch em and fire me.
I honestly don't think that's the purpose for these designs. Some of the homeless would stay homeless if they had an apartment to go to, it's a mental disorder. I'm sure there are residential buildings where families prefer not to walk out to a drugged-up herd of homeless out their front door. I get having compassion for the homeless, but it goes both ways.
@@Jkief123 of course, but I'm sure the general majority are not enjoying homelessness. Of course we get that, but homelessness is a debilitating situation to be in and we would be doing a better job trying to get those we can help out of it rather than dealing with the un-comfortability of seeing them. One is dealing with the root cause whilst the other is like a band-aid on a festering sore (just cosmetic really solves nothing).
@@Jkief123 yeah, maybe we should just let them die instead of helping them rehabilitate. There's a lot money can do, you just have to be smart about it.
I can sort of see the logic of it. The vent is there for a reason; if the vents are covered by mattresses or cardboard, then it isn't a vent any more. You wouldn't install a vent or grill in your flat and design it in such a way that it was easy to block it would you! Having said that, there should be warm dry places for rough sleepers to shelter.
There are 39,000 vents in the city, many of them being unblockable already since they're hidden in fake facade buildings, I doubt it was any sort of blockage issue for the vent system. The MTA's stated reason was anti-flooding, which is why they're not flush with the sidewalk anymore, but they don't mention the hostile architecture features.
Can't even begin to understand the sorrow that the homeless must have felt the first time see that their spot has been ruined by these hate grids. Seeing society conspire actively or complicitly against you would fill me with rage, but they can't even afford rage, it probably just adds to their despair...
They aren't trying to get rid of homelessness, they are trying to remove people causing an inconvience by having bulk people stand on property; Use common ense
This has actually a name: hostile architecture. Many places in-especially-big cities are designed to keep people away or at least to have them hang out for the shortest time possible.
I've noticed seating in some big name restaurants are the same. Pay for your food, eat, and gtfo. Well, I no longer pay for their food now, have fun paying the bills.
I don't see much hostile architecture in my area but, if I go to Houston or Dallas it becomes way more apparent. It is a poor plan and solves nothing and it generally implemented to hide a problem cheaply instead of addressing it. Also I don't like restaurants that use it in their seating as they generally have poor quality food and even worse service.
Property value jumps into my mind. Also half the poor are not homeless so much as jobless. The other half are dangerous. Half the poor myself included needs to figure something out...the other half tough shit. They sure as hell don't give a damn bout how u feel kiddo. Just saying.
The vents actually make sense. Being raised and unblocked prevents flooding and allows for ventilation which is what they are designed for. Benches not so much. It would be even better if they put more money towards the homeless problem instead.
@@BillAnt Homeless people eat good in America and have access to good drugs. Do you realize our homeless in America are better off than citizens in other countries?
@@NinjaSushi2 Yeah but also, they're homeless. I'm not sure why so many people like comparing countries to see which one is worse to justify the other one. Downplaying a serious problem helps no one.
@@shelbyvillerules9962 I've not seen that before but I've seen people ignore homeless people when asked for food but then go throw leftover sandwiches to pigeons right after it's kinda messed up how they treat animals versus actual people
I view similar design on vents that replace fences or spikes so its more hidden. Using this method on other places were look down upon and remove. Better solution was the businesses donate to the shelters so they can call them to remove unwanted visitors.
@@virajgoonerarsenal8022 I mean, it's in there name. Who are we to take away the identity of a homeless person? If they're not homeless then what would they be? "Homed", it just dosen't have the same ring to it. Plus, if we actually fixed the homeless problem then how could I buy my second Yaht?
It’s the total opposite here in California and it doesn’t do much about the homeless problem either. Like you said instead of finding the root cause of the homeless problem, they’re building tiny huts to shelter them in. It does not help, it increases the problem.
No no, it's not the country itself, but the city. Liberal politicians to be exact. You don't see this problem ANYWHERE that has a conservative governor.
@@thecomedypilot5894 because red states have way less people. NYC is extremely dense, which drives up land value, which increases homelessness. whenever conservatives are in charge of running major metropolitan areas instead of rural towns, its a disaster. if democrats were actually progressive they would implement the extremely successful anti-homelessness policies we see in countries like finland and denmark, but then low iq republicans would call it communism.
It worked. Now there are more homeless people than ever. Oh wait... Maybe they whould actually go to the root causes of people being homeless. As it is not always the same issue, even though some people like to think there is. Sometimes it is mental illness or got hooked on drugs or they just had some bad luck thrown at them. It's not always the same issue.
In France, they put (often) useless armrests on public benches, and I strongly suspect that those are against homeless people. Other than that, I've rarely seen things like that in France. But I've almost never been to big cities like Paris, maybe it's worse there.
@@hotelzeta24 don't blankets trap heat? Isn't that how they work in the first place? That's how they keep us warm. They trap our body heat. Then I guess it depends on how hot the air that comes out really is and the thickness of the blanket. You could argue that the homeless would be using a very thin blanket so it'll stay hot, but then it wouldn't be thick enough to make the pain of lying on that vent any bearable, which kind of defeats the purpose of this whole thing. Maybe if it's actually decently hot and you put a decent blanket over it, it'll still feel a bit warm but I'm not sure if that's warm enough to survive winter.
That might work, it'll still be a nice amount of heat that could penetrate the blankets. With that being said housing is a Human Right and they should spend enough energy trying to resolve it as they did with designing that grate.
I was homeless as a child. It’s almost unfathomable to believe bc my mother did such a wonderful job of making me feel normal despite homeless shelters. I cannot imagine the otherwise…
this is called hostile architecture and it's actually quite common. Examples of hostile architecture include spikes under bridges, spikes in benches, removing benching areas, and much more.
I live in a small town in Michigan. When I'm not busy with college, I sometimes volunteer at the local shelter. It makes me sad to see that the shelter is barely occupied, there are people, yes, but the shelter could house many dozens more. The problem is that the homeless people of the town DON'T want to stay in a shelter. For reasons I don't understand.
Thank you! I work for Adult Protective Services in Florida. Homelessness in our elderly & vulnerable/disabled population is worse that anyone realizes & not being addressed. I have been following you & this made me subscribe.
We need itemized audits of where our money goes, from the federal to local levels. It’s ridiculous how we give our hard earned money to thieves in suits and never once request a receipt
Give? No friendo it’s at gun point. Don’t pay your taxes armed lawmen will come to your house and put you behind bars and if you so much as resist boom you got a gun in your face.
NYC: " I have an idea to help homelessness." Batman: "Oh." NYC: "We can hire them to install architecture all over the city." Batman: "Hmm like what kind of architecture?" NYC: "Like the kind that hurts"
@@doctorfeelgood2670 While it's certainly not the best comment of any sort, I would argue that it is not BY FAR the "most cringe" comment on RU-vid... I've seen some shit man
This falls under the category of "hostile design" and there are many examples of it, such as pigeon spikes, making surfaces that were flat sloped so people cant sit on it, and adding little brass bumps to short walls so skateboarders cant grind on them.
Some of your examples are perfectly fair. Not having pigeons perch in spots where they can shit on your patrons is pretty reasonable. Preventing skateboarders from grinding YOUR property is fine too. This is coming from someone who did grinds. Not all of these designs were made with malicious intent, so be careful what you use to make a point.
@@MrSatchelpack true, bit making the ground slope so people can't comfortably sit on the ground seems excessive. But idk maybe there's a situation where it's necessary?
This is a great idea. Now that the homeless can't lay down on the vents, they'll just have to buy homes. Who knew that ending homelessness would be so easy?
@@kogasoldier9379 Not all jobs require an address. However, if they did, then they could easily just remove that requirement. And yet, they would rather pass vaccine mandates keeping good people from working.
Government: “How do we deal with homeless?” Citizen: “How about funding shelters and foundations?” Government: *”Lmfao how about we just make their lives an even grander hell…”*
@@harlow8577 Lol, whut? What this has to do with the government? The construction crew just built this from nothing then? My governor just demoted a homeless shelter that had over 500 rooms for profiting. That conservative-pro-life governor.
Just want to point out that building more shelters won't do much. Many homeless people refuse or don't qualify because you'll be drug tested and have to remain sober.
Some other designs, you can easily fix using an angle grinder (like if they have just spikes). Here, you can remove the parts sticking out, but you still have this weird shaped surface.
reminds me of that prison in texas that spent 10 years and over $20,000 defending a lawsuit from a wool-allergic prisoner that wanted a non-wool blanket instead of just buying him a non-wool blanket. continue to inflict suffering at any cost
@@creamycream7081 Unless I'm mistaken it sounds like they're arguing over the precedent of whether or not prisons have to make adjustments for the prisoner. It may have been cheaper but then it opens up up whole bag of worms for literally every other prisoner. Plus in this instance if the prisoner was allergic to the blanket they should've brought their own one. If they had no money they could've used alternatives, like the shedts I'm assuming they had no problem with, and worked to buy one that suited him. It certainly would've been cheaper on the prisoner's side if they ponied up for a lawyer to argue the point.
This is a “hostile architecture” perfect example, there’s plenty of documentation about these devices in urbanistics and sociology books. Humans can be so dishumans.
@@twistedgrillz7729 ok then what about the ones who are trying rise above the poverty line but are down on their luck at the moment? They too need a place to lay even for a moment.
I assume there are safety reasons why these vents can't be blocked, like, airflow needs to escape? I understand the compassion but I don't think it was just malice.
Defensive makes it sound like the city is under attack. Aggressive would be more accurate. The city is actively antagonizing the local homeless population.
@@TKnightcrawler how did you become aware of them in the first instance? I think the majority of people are almost completely unawares, based on 6 years or so living in London…
@@CT-vm4gf because spaces are designed and rules enforced in such a way that they're hostile to anyone who isn't either walking, biking, or driving past them.
I suspect, that the vents are there for a reason and people clogging them is not exactly what they are made for. How do we fix problems? Who knows, trying to be a rolemodel(?). I was tortured myself, never anyone got held accountable and i donot feel like i ever going to integrate back into the society. The only consolation for me is the fact, that me dying is gonna be worth it for myself, like adios… liberation, freedom.
Hostile Architecture? Outside of shelters for the homeless, Nothing is designed for homeless people, and benches along city xreeets and parks are me a nt for seating, nit for homeless people. All of the people calling this stuff hostile can open their doors for homeless people to help solve the homeless problem.
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Right, so they move to California, Florida, etc and it keeps these “budgets” high and all the people in charge like their pockets. 1 billion goes to LA for homeless every year and they buy them tent, cheap ones at a whole sale price and give them out, and that’s about it, the rest of the money they keep, instead of putting in place businesses or non profits that could help them and also create jobs…but what do I know, I was homeless and thankfully had family that loved me and helped me through Hard times. 🤷♂️
Ahhhh, but that's the problem. A lot of people want help but in their own way. No rules just give me what I want and keep the structured way of living you are trying to show me to yourself.
Hostile, antagonistic architecture has been plaguing this city for years. Designing uncomfortable benches that you can't lie down on, covering any surface you might stop to rest on with spikes, and just simply removing benches. As I get older and less physically fit and agile, I've noticed this not so subtle command to keep it moving. The landlords, the lords of the land, don't want you to be able to rest, to loiter, to stop and smell the flowers or feel the breeze. If you want to enjoy existence, you're gonna have to pay. No free rest and relaxation for you. The city is like a penitentiary for the poor and less able bodied.
@@mortaldeity1922 well not everybody is fit. Old people exist. Sick people exist. Disabled people exist. Do they not deserve the same accessibility and comfort of your everyday, "fit" person? I thought society was working towards treating people equally. Huh
@@mortaldeity1922 Aren't you helpful? Not to mention clever. Way to make that connection. But as people try to get back in shape, they may need a place to rest while exercising, or walking around. Public space should be beneficial and comfortable for the public. Wrapping everything in spikes and barbed wire is not a good look for a civil society. Disabling benches and places to rest (or skate on, or whatever) is not the answer. Hopefully you will be fit forever, and never get sick. Or hopefully you'll die young, and leave a pretty corpse, instead of getting old and breaking down. Either way, good luck to you, keen observer and captain of the obvious.
