I think if I owned a business I'd do the same, I don't want it smelling of p**s, s**t and littered and putting customers off. If your all so angry and disgusted with places that do make it hard for the homeless to sleep in their doorways, invite them to sleep in your gardens, shed, apartment, homes, No... I thought not.

I have compassion, but as someone who cannot get to my apartment without being accosted by homeless people, without having to step over piles of trash and piles of s**t from homeless people I can sympathize with the people who own the property, have to maintain the property and clean up after them. And by accosted, I do not mean begging for money, I mean threatening you for money, having them grab at your personal items, demanding you give them a ride somewhere. I promise this, none of you who complain about this have to daily pick up piles of s**t left on your doorstep, have to mop up pools of urine and vomit every single day. Aren't afraid to let your kids go outside alone because they will be groped or verbally assaulted. Not every homeless person is this way, but like everything else in this world a few ruin it for everyone.

A Lot of this kind of thing started as anti skateboarders, so you cant rail slide or grind

Fix the reasons that make people homeless and you do not need any of these. And now do not tell me homeless people are those that are to lazy to work. My own experience is that many seem to struggle with physical and mental illnesses, and addiction can be a factor. The price societies pay for NOT including them again is way higher than admited.

A good third of these aren't anti-homelessness at all. Some of these are inside malls...some of these are on people's private property...and a few are just design choices that are meant to look pretty rather than be practical.

Most of these are pretty bad. All of the pictures of vents that are topped make perfect sense though. There is equipment that needs those vents to function and anything blocking them could force a boiler to overheat and explode. I can't call that mean to homeless when they are trying to prevent insanely expensive breakdowns.

Fix the system. Don't punish the symptom. These are PEOPLE.

a lot of unempathetic people commenting here

Cities always seem to cast homeless folk as villains who deserve to be driven out of society. But in some cities, it's so hard to live there that folks are just a paycheck away from homelessness themselves. And worse, with a government and law enforcement that seem to thrive on privacy invasion, immigration round-ups, and the stress of living in a nation of the supposedly "free", it's no wonder so many would actually CHOOSE to be homeless. But to make it impossible to do something as simple as sleep is just horrid. It's inhumane. It's cruel.

What a way to knock someone when they are already down. Maybe if the governments put the money used for these anti homeless devices into better homeless services then hopefully we can see a reduction in homelessness. These people are human beings not trash. It makes me so angry and sad that some people are so heartless to do these kind of things. Grrrrrrr In saying that many of these were not anti homeless some were just designed to be interesting and artistic etc.

I am going to say a couple of things most people do not know. In most major cities there are lots of homeless shelters. I volunteer in one of them. Most of the people in the homeless shelter are very nice and are actively working to escape homelessness. However there are rules in the homeless shelter such as no drugs, no drinking, focus on getting jobs, focus on getting a high school diploma or GED, no active criminal warrant, and a chore schedule. Now the shelter i volunteer at is fully volunteer run so the people in the shelter needs to help out. The problem is a lot of the homeless i see do not want to follow these rules. Most of them want to continue to do what they want and often refuse to go to rehab so there is no choice for them to live on streets.

It breaks my heart that people would be this intentionally cruel to people who have already hit the rock bottom

Of course it's not OK to sleep and p**s in front of a business entrance, of course it's not OK to scare away customers, of course it's not OK to have a quasi-corpse sitting on your porch. BUT... instead of spending money with cruel and ugly spikes or intersecting benches, how about you pay that money into a fund so that the city can pay for social services for homeless people or, you know, crazy idea, PREVENT that people become homeless. Treating people like cattle until they break and then prohibiting them to even exist while they try to merely survive is some high-level cruelty, but I'm sure the cynical a**wipes that think this is OK went to a soup-kitchen once, on thanksgiving, helping serve some turkey to the homeless to feel good about themselves, good for you, nobody noticed you panicking about catching an illness.. Some businesses spend incredible amounts of money for useless marketing campaigns, spending it to help their city help the homeless would yield a priceless image-hike