Ah gotcha, we don't have those types of grates where I'm from
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yeah there's no grates like that here, either.
If they did they wouldn't be advocating for the removal of hostile architecture. I don't believe any of the 3 realize what homelessness is caused by or how to ever give an alternative that works out best for the people they try to help. Homeless in front of jobs and businesses hurt the business not just because they're smelly and unwashed, but because a lot of them are batshit and will harass customers and employees. It's a double edged sword and I don't think any of the 3 realize that homeless people can be fucking crazy.
Suggesting a solution that actually helps homeless people or at least attempts to help them (like opening more shelters or addressing one of the causes of homelessness in the first place) instead of letting them camp wherever is too much brain power. The homeless are naturally like that, right? Let's keep it as is, they say.
in my neck of the woods, a shelter was built in the late 1990s. It was built in the worst possible place (in the vicinity of at least 4 schools, two of which were elementary, and two of which were in almost immediate proximity). It was pushed through by the NDP,
because of course it was. Ever since then, the homeless been coming even though there's more homeless than there are rooms in the shelter (it's like apartments sorta, not like, cots in a wide open space type shelter). Now there's container-homes for the homeless on a property bought by the city in addition to that, which just went up. Heck, a homeless 20something woman somehow managed to write a letter to the editor about how grateful she was that she could get this little tiny home where her shit was safe and where she was safe that could be locked. IDK if she was on drugs or nothin or whether she just had shit family or dead family.
Funny thing, the homes immediately next to that place all went up for sale when it was announced.
There's a safe injection site not far from the original shelter, and that area's a cesspool of graffiti and trash. There's lots of apartment buildings in that area and the seniors are too scared to venture forth from their units. And yet the police will hardly do anything (RCMP).
Nobody's bothered with much "hostile architecture" other than fences and gates that close off overhangs in front of buildings so homeless can't shelter there. They had to do that at several businesses just down the road from the shelter, and at another business just down the road from the container tiny-house encampment. Further up another road, businesses have erected fences to keep people out of the landscaping or resting on the grass next to the sidewalk. Junkies kept passing out there. Because this is an NDP +10000000 "district" (riding as we say in Leafland), the problem will never ever be fixed.
IDK where the author of the blobfish comic is getting their idealized views about homeless people, but maybe they got lucky and talked to a few who were honestly down on their luck? I've talked to a few like that. The rest had obvious meth scars.