“Hostile Design”: This Twitter Account Is Sharing 35 Sad And Infuriating Examples Of Design Against Humanity

Made me chuckle 👍

My new hero 🙌

Slayyyy

Homeless people aren't undesirable. They're people just like the rest of us

Those that lack compassion and humanity don't care about others. That is proven by whoever decided to do this and anyone else that thinks this was ok to do to homeless human beings.

Ironically, the path to give them homes can be cheaper than the path to hide them from sight.

“But they look dirty and make me have uncomfortable feelings - take my money and make them go away” /s 🙄🙄🙄

All the money and time spent making it harder for the homeless, when instead it should have been used to help the homeless thus eliminating the problem.

Some of the bank buildings in my city put down spikes to stop people sleeping in the doorways a few years back and the outrage from the public was so high that they removed them again, you don't help the problem by moving it 5 metres down the street.

Yeah the solution is to give us homes tbh. Housing First is the only solution that actually works.

too well said

Agreed. And the same goes for anti-vaxxers. Hatred and agression are only going to make them more deffensive and stubborn.

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It's a bench, why should one person monopolize it when it's supposed to be there for other people... It's a bench to sit, the beds to sleep are at the shelter.

Our species can afford to feed and house all of us. ALL OF US, read it again. The ones in power - the ones who personally own the most resources and are categorically far better off than the vast majority of even average citizens - are the ones who decide how comfortable we make our homeless people.

Very true. It starts with simple greed. Some are not content with everyone having enough. They want more and so find the means to take it if they can. Inevitably this means some will go without.

Agreed, Beth. Those who are in positions of power and are able and responsible for making positive changes, are also the ones who are completely unaffected by any sort of disadvantages. Until they can relate to the hungry and the homeless, I doubt anything will change for the better.

It’s advertising the mission exactly bc you can’t sleep on that bench and no one should have to. It’s offering support not hate.

It says go to the rescue mission. Still dumb, because if they rather sleep on a bench, let them, but it's meant well.

Huge shame on the designer - as a designer, I’d honestly refuse a project like this (as well as anti-homeless architectural designs.) just because it was cool to be mean to people 40 years ago doesn’t mean it’s cool now.

Well they wouldn't have to worry about me and my limitations. I'd take my business, and my money, elsewhere. They might find id not be the only one and this strategy backfires on them

Omg u r right! What if u have injuries or mobility concerns? The pin will b crazy!

Might not be in the U.S. and ADA wouldn't apply. There are a lot of countries that don't have anything like that. I knew a guy from Austria that was paraplegic and he moved to the U.S. specifically because he had the opportunity to be self sufficient In the U.S. In Austria there was a lot of limitations on getting around.

I had hip replacement last year and back problems. I couldn't sit on those. If be tremors to sit on the table and just hold my food on my lap.

This is not new, just a bit more obvious than it use to be. I read an article in the 70s about designing seating for fast food restaurants that was initially comfortable but only for about 15 minutes

i'm disabled, and sitting on a seat like this would cause my so much back pain that i'd be out of commission for weeks. designs like this are ridiculous!

That'd be pretty much shame on all of them.

I think only short people would notice that... short people like me for example...

The fine for violating the ADA is viewed by companies as a price tag, not a deterrent. :\

Aunt Riarch down there is right. And so are you. Restaurants design things like this purposely, because they don't WANT people to linger. In their eyes, the more quickly one customer leaves, the more quickly another can be served. More customers. More money. And we all know, that to corporations, money is MUCH more important than people. Just ask anyone who works for those corporations. Myself, unfortunately, included.

Not ADA because wheelchair access is at the ends , those are for the express purpose of eating then leaving, so others can sit and eat. .not have people camping out the entire day.

They take everything away from a human and tell them “just go to the shelter” without realizing that there isn’t nearly enough room in the defunded shelters and it’s not a safe space for everyone. Then they get mad at us for costing a small money to buy shelter mattresses that don’t have bedbugs baked into them (“wait why do these people need new clean mattresses?” Me:”because they’re just people like the rest of us?”) but we need billions for weapons and the defence budget. (To defend the worlds biggest joke?) How is this not a dystopia yet? When can we revolt cause I’m ready with my pitchfork?

Then write your congressman/woman and tell them you'd like a tax increase that goes towards ending homelessness. It would cost $20 Billion to end homelessness in the US, as a tax increase across 240,000,000 adults living in the U.S that would come out to $83 per year, or 22.8 cents per person per day.

wish I could upvote this twice!

Umm, they used to, until the liberals decided it was "inhumane ". 🙄

Hear, hear!

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Ok. What's your address?

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It's not the NYCT's job to solve the problem of homelessness