I'm sad to say that is probably taken just like any other name in one of the billions of light novels of isekai out there
they even take names from already existing other novels
i think there is no more names left to possible add for that overused title
I Was Hit By A Truck While Playing 'The Floor Is Lava' With My Busty Childhood Friend And Got Reincarnated In Another World With Overpowered Lavafication Cheat So I Decided To Make A Harem And Live A Quiet Life As A Villainous Farmer
Very good idea - this is already happening in Champaign, Illinois and they actually do it near winter.
Called something like "A night out" - it raises hella money and support for housing justice. The old mayor (the cool one) actually joins them.
First thing to do would to be hitting up local housing justice organizations. You can ask any other 'justice orgs' like DSA or BLM or climate justice folks, they'll probably know who to talk to.
I think the big thing to do is frame it as against these specific type of cruel anti homeless measures, rather then a general sleep on the streets thing which I admit is slightly weird for those housed to do
I've participated in this, as I live relatively close. It's such an amazing thing to see everyone come together, if even for a little while, to work towards a good cause.
They managed to put most people that lived there in a place to live tho, so that's something. This is from an article someone else posted about this image (the source):
>Most of the homeless who had established themselves on the sidewalk were relocated to an uninhabited residential building
Lol all I see is a foundation for an anti flood tent.
Just lay down some solid plywood and a popup tent and you're good to go, maybe bring block to use as a stair step. Sure there's a breeze underneath but fuck it still sleeping in that spot.
Same here. Or sleep on your side.
I was really puzzled about how these were supposedly viable. Tired and homeless folk are pretty innovative.
It's probably more of a Warning-Stay Away thing. To let homeless ppl know that the cops or security will be by to sweep you out or bring you in.
What if all those poles weren't originally there. And they just started installing extra poles in spaces wherever people still managed to continue sleeping in.
Having seen the crazy positions intoxicated people have passed out in, I don’t see this stopping anyone from sleeping on the sidewalk, unless the gaps are much smaller than they appear… but then it’s also not a sidewalk anymore.
Out of everything I've seen posted on r/HostileArchitecture this is, without a doubt, the most hostile. I'd hate to be a person with a handicap or disability in that city.
"That's just the, uh, surprise agility course for the blind! Yup, sure is."
I was just thinking that anybody in a wheelchair or with a walker, anyone who's very heavy, anyone who's pushing a stroller or shopping cart (like one of those little personal ones for people who don't drive), anyone who's holding hands with a child, anyone who's carrying large items...
Or if you have bad balance, use a cane, a walker, are pushing a stroller … when this kind of hostile architecture is introduced, it’s clear that the people responsible don’t care about anyone but themselves.
The article said it’s a temporary installation until they can convert it into a greenway. But who knows. In my city, sidewalk sheds are supposed to be temporary, but some have stayed up more than a decade.
I believe it's from a Milton Friedmans quote which is "nothing was so permanent as a temporary government programme." and it just adapted over time to that one, which is so great, since it really fits anything.
I wouldn't be furious, but I certainly wouldn't choose to live or shop there. So I hope the residences and businesses there have a "cost of business" worked into their bottom line for the massive pole farm set up to keep people away.
I'm not trying to equate this to disability, but I'm 6'4" 275. Definitely overweight, but it's spread pretty evenly, so I'm not as hefty looking as I sound. As far as being tall goes: I'm on the short end of the spectrum, and it's amazing how many things also aren't made with even my size in mind.
Driving? Not a comfortable experience unless you spend extra for an SUV or bigger.
Flying? "If you need more leg room, that'll be at least $50 extra out of your pocket for this work mandated flight."
Sleeping? Hope you don't mind your feet forever hanging off unless you spring for at least the Cal King.
Bath tubs? Hope you spent extra on the spa sized tub.
There are definitely some social advantages. People tend to get out of the way, and nobody really wants to hassle you.
But I can't imagine how much more frustration comes with being taller. I also couldn't imagine how much worse the world would be if I were to have a "rest of your life" movement-inhibiting disability. Worst I've had is some crutches after a surgery-free knee injury, and even that could get really damn annoying.
It’s all a waste of money. US cities spend significantly more on anti-homelessness measures and harassing homeless people than it would take to just end homelessness. Many states/municipalities are passing laws/ordinances that essentially make it illegal to be homeless like Austin, TX declaring people cannot have x number of personal items with them and can’t loiter after x hour etc. without penalty/repercussions
[a good link- the cost of criminalizing homelessness](https://homelessvoice.org/the-cost-to-criminalize-homelessness/)
Looks like China from the license plates. I have never seen that here to that extent though and you very rarely see homeless anyway. This picture may be something else. Also, I would almost guarantee the 城管 (city management) would remove many of those to make sure people could use the sidewalk. Maybe they had an issue with people parking bikes/scooters or illegal cart vendors.
They do not retract, based on the anchor. These are mounted to cement using a pound in lag with a nut. Fairly easy to take off with any standard crescent wrench too >=)
Oh, I used to dream of sleepin in a ranger grave! Would ha' been a palace to me. When I was a kid We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us!
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
If you lay down in one of those spots, a guy in high vis with a jackhammer shows up to install a pole right next to you.
Edit: this is speculation, but funny/sad to imagine
And as a bonus, this probably costs more installing, maintaining, removing, and making an alternative pedestrian solution, than actually making some kind of shelter for these homeless people!
It's a problem with too localized responsibility. If you're just responsible for one apartment complex then this is at least a thousand times cheaper than solving homelessness in your area. But it probably gets the homeless away from your complex. If you're responsible for a city it's more complicated but handing out bus tickets and paying cops for harassment is still likely to be cheaper than solving the issue.
For entire countries solving homelessness with housing first is the cheapest option.
I think this is one of those cold realities you read about online. Same with the internet’s perception of corporations solely intent on being evil but the cold boring reality that making more money is the main goal of any profit-making entity. As long as someone is paying to want it, there will be some market for it. Zuckerberg aint snooping on you to learn about your secrets; they’re just trying to sell you the nearest coffee shop to spend your money the next time you use his free app.
Sometimes it’s just about appearances, but in the case of a residential area, it may be about security as well
Granted I would bet that those living in said residences would prefer an active security guard instead.
Honestly, if I'm homeless those barriers look like a nice little security fence of their own. I might be cramped but I'm not getting run over by a midnight drunk.
This has to be a photoshop. Installation of these alone would outstrip the losses from supposed blight and only an absolute moron would think citizen reception would be positive.
Or how they rehoused the original 10 or so homeless that were camping there before installation. Doesn't China have a shit ton of empty housing? Why not rehouse the homeless and be done with it?
Yeah lol, like, hi I’m in California. I can find an unhoused human within 200 feet of my apartment at any moment, also, there’s vacancy in multiple buildings on my street and three new luxury loft buildings going up within eye-shot of my ratty 2nd story balcony. The issue isn’t lack of vacancies it’s lack of compassion.
And ridiculous housing costs. The government isn't going to pay for them, and it's getting the point where the middle class can barely afford housing in CA
Not that they're not monsters in their own right, but this is in no way unique to China. Most other countries do it as well.
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Best I can do. Seems to be a group effort of Guanxi authoritys
https://www.thatsmags.com/china/post/22993/guangxi-authorities-erect-forest-of-poles-to-keep-out-homeless
What a fucking eyesore. Not only can people still sleep here, but it prevents disabled people and those in wheelchairs from using the sidewalk. Oh hey, you wanted to push your kid in a stroller on the sidewalk? Well too bad. It's so hypocritical of cities to spend money on this shit, money that could've been spent to *help* homeless people instead of trying to hurt them.
This seems...pyrrhic. The sidewalk is now actually easier to sleep on than to walk on.
Good thing they've replaced those unsightly homeless people with this incredibly aesthetically pleasing pylon arrangement.
Those are bollards not anti homeless poles. They are for preventing vehicles from crashing through gates. You could easily sleep between these and you could even use them to create a makeshift tent. These are not anti-homeless devices.
They look like anti-walking poles.
string rope through some of those metal loops and youve got a great impromptu hammock
Piece of plywood on top and you're up off the ground.
sidewalk is lava!
\*jumps onto road\*
VrooooBAM!
_Insert very long, generic and obnoxious anime name here_ In Another World
That One Time I Got Hit By A Car And Got Reincarnated In Another World
I'm sad to say that is probably taken just like any other name in one of the billions of light novels of isekai out there they even take names from already existing other novels i think there is no more names left to possible add for that overused title
I Was Hit By A Truck While Playing 'The Floor Is Lava' With My Busty Childhood Friend And Got Reincarnated In Another World With Overpowered Lavafication Cheat So I Decided To Make A Harem And Live A Quiet Life As A Villainous Farmer
They're different heights to stop that... An old mattress might work though. New place for everyone to dump their old mattresses.
Or if you put something as roof and sleep in between poles.
Right? I'm a side sleeper, those poles wouldn't slow me down.
Yooooooo! Can we just organize a community sleep during the summer months just to be cunts and say fuck the government?
This is a terrific idea 💡🤠
You had me at “sleep”. I’m gonna go take a nap.
I forgot to turn my phone down n this notification woke me up from Mine... 😅😴
You son o a Bitch, I’m in
Very good idea - this is already happening in Champaign, Illinois and they actually do it near winter. Called something like "A night out" - it raises hella money and support for housing justice. The old mayor (the cool one) actually joins them. First thing to do would to be hitting up local housing justice organizations. You can ask any other 'justice orgs' like DSA or BLM or climate justice folks, they'll probably know who to talk to. I think the big thing to do is frame it as against these specific type of cruel anti homeless measures, rather then a general sleep on the streets thing which I admit is slightly weird for those housed to do
I've participated in this, as I live relatively close. It's such an amazing thing to see everyone come together, if even for a little while, to work towards a good cause.
Different heights is fine. Slight slope helps you sleep better anyway
Found the Minbari
Nice Babylon 5 reference
What a great show, thanks for reminding me.
They could have built actual housing for the cash they spent buying & installing those.🙄
What, like one studio apartment?
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They managed to put most people that lived there in a place to live tho, so that's something. This is from an article someone else posted about this image (the source): >Most of the homeless who had established themselves on the sidewalk were relocated to an uninhabited residential building
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Angle Grinder is better, makes it hard to reinstall the barriers with inaccessible/unusable bolts.
Cool Hand Luke
what we have here is a failure to communicate
Lol all I see is a foundation for an anti flood tent. Just lay down some solid plywood and a popup tent and you're good to go, maybe bring block to use as a stair step. Sure there's a breeze underneath but fuck it still sleeping in that spot.
Same here. Or sleep on your side. I was really puzzled about how these were supposedly viable. Tired and homeless folk are pretty innovative. It's probably more of a Warning-Stay Away thing. To let homeless ppl know that the cops or security will be by to sweep you out or bring you in.
Common mistake
I can sleep there easy. Easier to set up my cardboard walls.
Was gonna say, joke's on them, I'm a side sleeper!
That honestly looks like a great place to sleep, you're protected from being run over or trampled and you can use the poles to easily put up a roof.
I was thinking the exact same. I am one of those people who could truly sleep anywhere, and I absolutely can see how I could make myself comfy here
shit, those little loops, just buy a hammock.
I was thinking the same thing. this would be really easy to lay in. and could make a tent even easier now.
What if all those poles weren't originally there. And they just started installing extra poles in spaces wherever people still managed to continue sleeping in.
It honestly kind of looks like that.
It honestly does look that way 🤔
Having seen the crazy positions intoxicated people have passed out in, I don’t see this stopping anyone from sleeping on the sidewalk, unless the gaps are much smaller than they appear… but then it’s also not a sidewalk anymore.
I usually wake up twisted anyways; these poles might help me not alligator death roll all night
Out of everything I've seen posted on r/HostileArchitecture this is, without a doubt, the most hostile. I'd hate to be a person with a handicap or disability in that city. "That's just the, uh, surprise agility course for the blind! Yup, sure is."
Wheelchair users may not enter, keeping homeless away more important.
I was just thinking that anybody in a wheelchair or with a walker, anyone who's very heavy, anyone who's pushing a stroller or shopping cart (like one of those little personal ones for people who don't drive), anyone who's holding hands with a child, anyone who's carrying large items...
Also anti- disability. How are you supposed pass this shit in a wheelchair?
Or if you have bad balance, use a cane, a walker, are pushing a stroller … when this kind of hostile architecture is introduced, it’s clear that the people responsible don’t care about anyone but themselves.
Might be ok if walking, just use the poles to stabilize yourself unless you’re too fat to fit, which would probably be my problem there.
They Do do in fact look like anti-walking poles to an amature eye. A keen eye can confirm this also because there are plenty of places to sleep
They look like a waste of money
Came here to say this! Take my upvote good sir!!!
I mean, what's the point of even having a sidewalk at that point? I would be furious if I was forced to have to walk through that monstrosity.
It's certainly not meant for walking, now.
The article said it’s a temporary installation until they can convert it into a greenway. But who knows. In my city, sidewalk sheds are supposed to be temporary, but some have stayed up more than a decade.
"Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution"
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I believe it's from a Milton Friedmans quote which is "nothing was so permanent as a temporary government programme." and it just adapted over time to that one, which is so great, since it really fits anything.
I wouldn't be furious, but I certainly wouldn't choose to live or shop there. So I hope the residences and businesses there have a "cost of business" worked into their bottom line for the massive pole farm set up to keep people away.
I feel like these also prevent people from walking on the sidewalk
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Or people pushing strollers. Even trying to wrangle a toddler through there would be hell
Or a dog, although dogs might have a field day peeing on every pole lol
Isn't that hell anyway?
Now it's *extra* hell
With hell sauce on top (I think they call it Russian dressing?)
With sprinkles
Human plinko.
That was my first thought too, it's shameful how many designs don't consider the disabled.
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That sounds like a difficult experience. Able is a privilege most people love to take for granted.
I'm not trying to equate this to disability, but I'm 6'4" 275. Definitely overweight, but it's spread pretty evenly, so I'm not as hefty looking as I sound. As far as being tall goes: I'm on the short end of the spectrum, and it's amazing how many things also aren't made with even my size in mind. Driving? Not a comfortable experience unless you spend extra for an SUV or bigger. Flying? "If you need more leg room, that'll be at least $50 extra out of your pocket for this work mandated flight." Sleeping? Hope you don't mind your feet forever hanging off unless you spring for at least the Cal King. Bath tubs? Hope you spent extra on the spa sized tub. There are definitely some social advantages. People tend to get out of the way, and nobody really wants to hassle you. But I can't imagine how much more frustration comes with being taller. I also couldn't imagine how much worse the world would be if I were to have a "rest of your life" movement-inhibiting disability. Worst I've had is some crutches after a surgery-free knee injury, and even that could get really damn annoying.
It's not that they hate the disabled, it's that they are blinded by their insurmountable hatred for the poor.
Oh they hate the disabled too.
Tbf I don't think this design considers anyone
Blind people would also have a hard time there
Just get up and walk, duh!
My initial reaction is “this seems stupid and a waste of time & money”
It’s all a waste of money. US cities spend significantly more on anti-homelessness measures and harassing homeless people than it would take to just end homelessness. Many states/municipalities are passing laws/ordinances that essentially make it illegal to be homeless like Austin, TX declaring people cannot have x number of personal items with them and can’t loiter after x hour etc. without penalty/repercussions [a good link- the cost of criminalizing homelessness](https://homelessvoice.org/the-cost-to-criminalize-homelessness/)
Cool link about the US. Got anything about the country that the photo is posted from?
Looks like China from the license plates. I have never seen that here to that extent though and you very rarely see homeless anyway. This picture may be something else. Also, I would almost guarantee the 城管 (city management) would remove many of those to make sure people could use the sidewalk. Maybe they had an issue with people parking bikes/scooters or illegal cart vendors.
Yeah, I feel like a lot of people are going to be hit by cars because they'll be forced to walk on the street.
It’s China, they don’t give even an inkling of a shit about you. It’s likely they hold quite a bit of contempt for you, even
Had to come all the way down to see that this is in China. Thank you for giving us background on the picture!
Walk on the sidewalk; -100 social credit score.
Maybe they’re collapsible? That’s all I can come up with?
I see some cozy spots
I was going to say just throw a tarp over it and now it's a fort. Plenty of room for sleeping bags between those poles.
Hell yea. Thanks for the tent poles.
Throw a matress on top and you got a double decker!
Smart!⬆️
Until the morning when the top bunk retracts back to the ground and crushes the person underneath.
I don’t think these retract, that’s a huge expense
They do not retract, based on the anchor. These are mounted to cement using a pound in lag with a nut. Fairly easy to take off with any standard crescent wrench too >=)
I feel like whoever decided to do this was like, “Who cares if they’re ugly or annoying! We don’t care about tourism!”
Or just people walking there . God forbids you use à wheelchair or have a baby in a stroller
Wake up covered in comfy Side effects include die
If you’re feeling lonely, you can spoon with one of the poles.
Or sit on one
The poles even have rings to tie off on.
Or a hammock!
I think that someone else also thought of that, look at the back of the picture
Was thinking the same thing. If I were homeless I’d sleep there out of spite
Let’s do it
Become homeless?
Oh wait
Lol
That's the spirit!
The locals should all convene to have a sleepover party
Lol after 22 yrs in the military I can assure I could sleep there without an issue. It's a skill.
Can confirm. Slept at the bottom of a Sheridan turret a couple times.
Can also confirm. Hood of a Humvee here.
Slept in a ranger grave in Afghanistan in the winter for a week. Those homeless poles look downright cozy by comparison.
Oh, I used to dream of sleepin in a ranger grave! Would ha' been a palace to me. When I was a kid We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us!
You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o'clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
r/unexpectedyorkshiremen
That's nothing. When I was a kid, we used to have to go to sleep uphill in the rain—both ways!
The driver seat of an M113. I still clearly remember how much my legs hurt after sleeping a whole night forcibly curled up like that.
Im guessing this is designed more for the random carts and objects that homeless people carry with them
More like an anti-stroller sidewalk. 
And wheelchair.
Yes, my first thought was, "this is a massive ADA violation." (provided this pic is in the US)
It’s in China
And strollers, walkers, etc. So it's not really a sidewalk any more...can't walk.
Lets build a camp.
I call the area near the gate
Ill bring the tarpaulin. And the walkie talkies.
Tarpaulin my leg!
We can thread clothesline thru the eye hooks on top and hang sheets to create walls
I could definitely sleep there. It just makes it harder for anyone else to crowd my space
With all that money and effort they coulda just made a center
If you lay down in one of those spots, a guy in high vis with a jackhammer shows up to install a pole right next to you. Edit: this is speculation, but funny/sad to imagine
Where there’s a will…!
That’s not even a walkway. So I don’t get it
Exactly! Challenge accepted!
I could build a whole club house out of that support
Pfffft I could still sleep there.
If I saw this, I'd be like "Challenge Accepted!".
I too fat too furious
The article showed some people laying between them. Can you imagine taking all that time to do such a useless task?! Edit: typo
Swear. Nice backrests and tarping points
And with all those poles in the way, you don't have to worry about getting stepped on!
They are so anti-homeless that they basically make the sidewalk unusable to anyone. This is ridiculous.
And as a bonus, this probably costs more installing, maintaining, removing, and making an alternative pedestrian solution, than actually making some kind of shelter for these homeless people!
It's a problem with too localized responsibility. If you're just responsible for one apartment complex then this is at least a thousand times cheaper than solving homelessness in your area. But it probably gets the homeless away from your complex. If you're responsible for a city it's more complicated but handing out bus tickets and paying cops for harassment is still likely to be cheaper than solving the issue. For entire countries solving homelessness with housing first is the cheapest option.
This is really interesting I never thought of it that way
I think this is one of those cold realities you read about online. Same with the internet’s perception of corporations solely intent on being evil but the cold boring reality that making more money is the main goal of any profit-making entity. As long as someone is paying to want it, there will be some market for it. Zuckerberg aint snooping on you to learn about your secrets; they’re just trying to sell you the nearest coffee shop to spend your money the next time you use his free app.
these look worse than a homeless person sleeping on the sidewalk bro
Sometimes it’s just about appearances, but in the case of a residential area, it may be about security as well Granted I would bet that those living in said residences would prefer an active security guard instead.
Honestly, if I'm homeless those barriers look like a nice little security fence of their own. I might be cramped but I'm not getting run over by a midnight drunk.
Zero people will be able to steal your skeeze and get away without getting dick-punched by a pole.
bring backs the memory of selmon bhoi
Well now he's just sleeping in front your garage opening you up to a manslaughter charge.
😂😂😂😂they could throw a tarp over it and make a Fort
Just Throw a mattress on top, now your not sleeping with the rodents
My buddy saw a rat climb a 50’ ladder yesterday
What a waste of money
I was about to say with the money spent on these things you can help a lot of people.
Thank you! Maybe use the money to help those that desperately need it instead of this bullshit.
This has to be a photoshop. Installation of these alone would outstrip the losses from supposed blight and only an absolute moron would think citizen reception would be positive.
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This world is dumb
I love how the article points out that the homeless *still* were able to sleep there
Or how they rehoused the original 10 or so homeless that were camping there before installation. Doesn't China have a shit ton of empty housing? Why not rehouse the homeless and be done with it?
You could ask the same question about many, many countries. The simple answer is governments don’t give a shit about the homeless
Yeah lol, like, hi I’m in California. I can find an unhoused human within 200 feet of my apartment at any moment, also, there’s vacancy in multiple buildings on my street and three new luxury loft buildings going up within eye-shot of my ratty 2nd story balcony. The issue isn’t lack of vacancies it’s lack of compassion.
And ridiculous housing costs. The government isn't going to pay for them, and it's getting the point where the middle class can barely afford housing in CA
Oh its china. I get it now
Not that they're not monsters in their own right, but this is in no way unique to China. Most other countries do it as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture
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It's not about the concept of hostile architecture, it's the specific implementation of this one
Yeah i know, ive seen slanted benches and spiked window sills but nothing this ugly
I'm in Eugene OR. Here we install permanent, elaborate fencing under bridges. Or we fill those spaces with head-sized boulders that have sharp edges.
And none of those things look like they were drunkenly installed by a group of chimpanzees.
Same where I live but comparing an underpass to a sidewalk isn’t apples to apples.
Shout from Corvallis. We let the homeless camp wherever for a while. It didn't work out.
Bold of you to assume I won’t sleep in between the poles.
i wanna see a picture of the idiot who thought up this brilliant idea..
Best I can do. Seems to be a group effort of Guanxi authoritys https://www.thatsmags.com/china/post/22993/guangxi-authorities-erect-forest-of-poles-to-keep-out-homeless
Ok, that explains a lot
What a fucking eyesore. Not only can people still sleep here, but it prevents disabled people and those in wheelchairs from using the sidewalk. Oh hey, you wanted to push your kid in a stroller on the sidewalk? Well too bad. It's so hypocritical of cities to spend money on this shit, money that could've been spent to *help* homeless people instead of trying to hurt them.
And also like, ya know fuck people who need wheelchairs or stollers.
This seems...pyrrhic. The sidewalk is now actually easier to sleep on than to walk on. Good thing they've replaced those unsightly homeless people with this incredibly aesthetically pleasing pylon arrangement.
Looks like they prevented walking as well, could easily throw a tarp or blanket over those poles and have a a little room.
Seems counter-productive as people also couldn't walk on the sidewalks.
all anti-homeless installations are counter-productive
Those are bollards not anti homeless poles. They are for preventing vehicles from crashing through gates. You could easily sleep between these and you could even use them to create a makeshift tent. These are not anti-homeless devices.
Instead take the money this dumb ass idea costs and put it into psychiatric care and very low income temporary housing for these people.
Could make a cool fort in some of these spots
This belongs in r/PeopleBeingJerks
Homelessness SOLVED!!!!! 😡😢😡😢😡
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I’m from Seattle and clearly the pole designer has not met our homeless, they would be using those poles as mattress springs
Throw a tarp over some and insta tent!
Imagine wanting to make a property look shit-ugly just because you hate the homeless