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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

I'm hiding a homeless person in my home, which is risking eviction to keep someone off the streets. Here, most tenancies don't allow you to "sublet", the landlord legally gets the final say about who lives in their property.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There’s a literal glowie downvoting every socialist thing 😂

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

wait I'm confused how is the top middle picture anti-homeless architecture

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

Folks lie on those vents in the winter because they're warm. Putting stuff in the way makes that harder

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

They look human like, maybe they are meant to cast a shadow or something to make people uncomfortable like somebody is watching?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Homeless people sleep on the vents for warmth.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

The vents are still accessible though? And you have these nifty mannequins to hang your stuff?

Edit: honest question, possibly unnecessary joke.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Let them eat cake. Try sleeping on them and report back to us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I feel like we're talking past each other. I'm wondering how the weird human-shaped things added on top of the vents constitute hostile architecture - how are they meant to to discourage people from sleeping there? This is me trying to learn, I'm very aware that sleeping on vents isn't exactly comfortable but how do these things make it less so?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

You'd probably have to lie between them instead of just looking at a photo, to assess if it's still possible.

Clearly they were put there with the intention of making it difficult/uncomfortable to lie down on the subway vent. If they were installed incompetently that doesn't make them unhostile though, it just makes them ineffective for their obviously intended purpose.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I see what you're digging at, I was confused by them too. Hostile architecture meets just plain terrible design?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Right? It looks like there was an attempt (gold star) at hostility but they still wanted it to look somewhat aesthetically pleasing and mostly forgot about the hostile part? Or maybe I'm just not seeing most of the hostile part, that's what I'm trying to figure out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Nah I think you got it. Veiling art as hostile architecture is fairly common so I think the artist lead took over and they forgot the intent of ruining someone's ability to sleep haha

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