POVERTY IS A FEATURE NOT A BUG

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Don't worry, they've outlawed homelessness. Problem solved!
- Literally though. And there's a whole practice of hostile architecture that makes it harder and more uncomfortable to be homeless.
  
  The point of hostile architecture isn't to solve homelessness, just to send them to the next block/town over (not saying you don't understand that, just pointing it out).
  
  I wonder if hostile architecture also kills people. Increasing exposure to cold and reducing opportunities to rest doesn't seem good for your chances for survival. I guess that would solve homelessness, but in the worst most morbid way possible.
  
  You're absolutely right in your suspicion. Like so many "let's punish the poor and vulnerable so they'll stop being poor and vulnerable" policies that people think are just a "righteous" inconvenience, hostile architecture DOES kill people.
  It's social murder just so the more fortunate don't have to look at the consequences of an unjust system.
  
  The most morbid way i heard about was in the news, when i lived in Brasil. Store owners used to pay police officers to get rid of the homeless disturbing their business in Rio de Janeiro.
  Carried out at night, organized & stealthy, most victims were kids.
  I don't remember if someone really went to jail for this. That was in the 80s, like 20 years ago.
  
  1980 was 43 years ago :P
  
  Noooo! All of the 90s were 10 years ago and always will be, so it follows that the 80s were 20 years ago!
- Make it unconstitutional for a municipality to let anyone go unhoused? Based, love it.

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