You get them near the sea in Poland, I think Rewal have them for Example. Also, practically every not "bigger City" have no anti-homeless benches, maybe because there are practically no homeless people.
I mean that there are almost no in small cities, maybe 1 or 2 on a City means that changing over 100 benches is not practical even for anti-homeless government.
I saw plenty in Warsaw and WrocĆaw, mostly around the business districts and new neighborhoods
But in general I always thought this âanti-homeless infrastructureâ trend was an American thing. At least I havenât seen something as actively hostile as this.
Thatâs not anti homeless, itâs pro ADA inclusion. Those are designed for folks with limited mobility who use wheelchairs. The idea is that they shouldnât just be awkwardly placed at the end of benches and tables.
Ik it doesn't fit with Poland exactly everywhere but Ari Matti has a joke about homeless people in his (cold) European country: "No bigger culture shock than me than the American homeless, because you have these erratic fucking hard to read homeless out there. There's a man holding a pipe ( waving pipe wildly ) just going off and what annoys me is just how nonchalantly everyone around me acts. Like all my neighbors are like " that's Mike" and I'm the only one that's like "uhhhhh shoot Mike..?" But like.you know your homeless you grew up with them. In Estonia we also know our homeless people, but what we also have is a rough winter. So it's not the same guy
The first time I saw an anti-homeless bench was this year, in Sopot. I was surprised, I thought they are not a thing in Poland. Haven't seen them elsewhere, but I don't travel often.
Dude in Poland we have only 30k homeless people for 40mln people in the country, why would we need some weird benches? I live in a big city and we donât have any anti homeless people infrastructure.
So the drunk Londoners stop laying down and pissing under themselves as they pass out.
KrakĂłw is basically a tourist trap city nowadays. Maybe they want a "better image" in case someone decides to take a nap in an area where tourists move around.. Dunno.
We do have homeless people here and there and they often did resident public transport hubs AFAIK. but the amount of them is barely noticeable and as a local of a city, you will often "know" homeless people by their nicknames.
Don't know about the unicorn stable, but there are normal, sleep-able benches all over ĆĂłdĆș. My husband has adopted the alcohobo who sleeps in one in our street and brings him warm meals.
Well, in any major European city the area around the main train station(s) is usually a hot spot for addicts and homeless. Judging a whole country by that metric damns the whole continent.
Not really. Thatâs about 8 per 10.000 people. UK, France and Australia have about 6 times more homeless people. Germany and Sweden have about 5 times more, while the US have about twice as many.
I'm just stating it's still an enormous amount of homeless people in a very small country. New England is around the same size and has significantly less homeless people with the same general climate.
Meh, the anti-homeless are also easier to use by elders or people with back and knee problems, and it's not like a homeless won't find a fitting place to lay somewhere nearby.
This is an anti-comfort bench. I absolutely hate sitting on something without back support, whether it's a bar stool at a restaurant or, even worse, this bench in a public space when I need to rest for a few minutes
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u/Adri4n95 Poland 2d ago
30 years in Poland and I've never seen this shit. Bigger cities have tons of anti-homeless benches like all around the world