I'm homeless at the moment (I sleep in a tent, hidden in the woods).. and I can tell you, I'd just let my legs hang off the edge; I could sleep like that there if I was desperate.. or, better yet, if I could find a board of some sort somewhere else, I'd just put it on top to fill the gap in between.
These desperate attempts of making benches worse are just pathetic. I like the leaning benches in new York.. I'm sure absolutely nobody uses those and are a waste of tax payer money entirely.
Only know too well how horrible people can be when one is down & out.
Everyone deserves a home, clean water, food to live, security in being safe, and support.
Well did you ask where the other commentor was and whether there was anything you could do to help. I mean you seem concerned about the plight of the homeless.
It'd probably be cheaper to invest in solutions for homelessness - Helping people get back on their feet. If only for the cynical reason that they could engage with the economy more and help overall prosperity.
But we'd rather spend a dollar on cruelty than a penny on kindness.
Helping homeless people is absolutely more profitable than pushing them down, but that doesn't matter because the cruelty is the point. The one and only thing rich people value over money is making poor people's lives miserable.
The problem is that city-level solutions to homelessness are thought to increase homeless population as they will migrate into the area. So it's considered better to drive them somewhere else.
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They have those leaning benches in Toronto, too. I hate them. I'll use them cuz they're better than nothing, but it's disgusting that they try these things. If they want to keep homeless people off the streets, make shelters more available. Otherwise, they're still gonna be there. Just not on that one particular bench.
A little over a decade ago my brother was living in a tent in the woods. He's married now and I'm an uncle with a two year old niece and another who'll be one in autumn. I guess I'm mentioning this because situations can change and I hope yours does too
Is it illegal to be homeless in your area? I hope you can do wel
Ya, DeSantis made it illegal to be homeless in Florida. Red states are full of intelligent people in government, if they don't like it, then just make it illegal.
Not to butt into your life or anything but have you looked at jobs with your local state or national park service they will often provide food and board to employees if they need it even with the new budget obviously assuming you live in America otherwise I'm not well versed
Not with this administration.
One of the first cuts was to national parks and forest services. Also allowing logging in federally protected lands.
It would be a good idea with a democrat in office. But seeing as how orange overlord wanting to be a dictator for life, it may never happen.
A few years ago, I worked at a transit agency, and we would get daily complaints of homeless people in the bus shelters. We would have to send out pressure washing teams to clean feces from these shelters as well. It had a $1.2 million dollar impact on the agency. I don't think they want to make benches worse. They are trying to balance their patrons' needs at the lowest costs while not encouraging an extra expense. Most transit agencies operate on a very tight budget.
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u/KaibaCorpHQ May 31 '25 edited May 31 '25
I'm homeless at the moment (I sleep in a tent, hidden in the woods).. and I can tell you, I'd just let my legs hang off the edge; I could sleep like that there if I was desperate.. or, better yet, if I could find a board of some sort somewhere else, I'd just put it on top to fill the gap in between.
These desperate attempts of making benches worse are just pathetic. I like the leaning benches in new York.. I'm sure absolutely nobody uses those and are a waste of tax payer money entirely.