• snooggums@midwest.social
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    9 months ago

    Cities discourage benches because the homeless might use them and that would mean acknowledging the homeless exist.

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      9 months ago

      That’s not always the case tho. Sometimes cities just forget benches exist. My town has no real homeless issues but still lacks of benches for some reason and the public parks team would rather spend the money on touristy shit like “dancing fountains” smh

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      9 months ago

      It’s more that it makes the area unpleasant and even perhaps dangerous to others. Sucks but it is what it is