I have seen many posts about removing benches or making spiked surfaces to deter the homeless. They cannot exist simply out of malice.
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In theory there are reasonable arguments to be made for closing off areas to the homeless. I’m not going to get into those arguments though because they are really never made in good faith.
The societies that do this are not taking the steps needed to help these people and are instead just trying to sweep the problem out of the public eye.
You have to consider that every homeless person represents a failure by government in some fundamental way. These people were soldiers who were wounded by their service and then denied help to heal. These people were children who were abandoned by society and denied a chance at life. These people were beset by mental illness and never given the therapy and care needed to see them function. Very very very rarely we also have drug addicts who frankly were hurt by the way on drugs and ought to have been getting help and instead got thrown into a cruel punitive system.
If we were doing things right and you then wanted to stop someone from loitering in a subway station then be my guest. But right now this is about keeping society from seeing it’s own shortcomings.
With that said… Society has a very interesting opinion of help and a lot of what we did in the past with the best of intentions really hurt. So homelessness is a problem we really have to approach with care and humility and an iron clad drive that we do not more harm.
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