Antonius on Nostr: Any opinions on “hostile architecture”? Plenty of it to be found in San Diego’s ...
Any opinions on “hostile architecture”?
Plenty of it to be found in San Diego’s urban neighborhoods.
Critics say it is a cruel way to treat chronically homeless people, many of whom have nowhere to go. They lament that hostile architecture is used to dissuade encampments alongside buildings. Where are the chronically homeless to go, after all?
But it’s never just encampments. It’s about safety for everyone including tax paying citizens. Maybe hostile architecture keeps some chronically homeless from defecating in the nooks and crannies of the exterior of the building where you live. Raw feces pose a danger to everyone. It can carry all kinds of nasty things like hepatitis and other diseases.
Hostile architecture might keep a chronically homeless person from using drugs there; from acting out on severe mental health issues; from not using the area to change clothes during which they completely expose themselves to you and your children as you walk by.
Yes, the chronically homeless issue is complex. I’m all for trying to find solutions.
But. But I also live the reality of being in close proximity to this city’s chronic homeless problem. Hostile architecture works to keep everyone safer.
Period.
Plenty of it to be found in San Diego’s urban neighborhoods.
Critics say it is a cruel way to treat chronically homeless people, many of whom have nowhere to go. They lament that hostile architecture is used to dissuade encampments alongside buildings. Where are the chronically homeless to go, after all?
But it’s never just encampments. It’s about safety for everyone including tax paying citizens. Maybe hostile architecture keeps some chronically homeless from defecating in the nooks and crannies of the exterior of the building where you live. Raw feces pose a danger to everyone. It can carry all kinds of nasty things like hepatitis and other diseases.
Hostile architecture might keep a chronically homeless person from using drugs there; from acting out on severe mental health issues; from not using the area to change clothes during which they completely expose themselves to you and your children as you walk by.
Yes, the chronically homeless issue is complex. I’m all for trying to find solutions.
But. But I also live the reality of being in close proximity to this city’s chronic homeless problem. Hostile architecture works to keep everyone safer.
Period.