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That's why there's a need for public bathrooms. We are de facto privatizing bathrooms in a way that ends up being an anti homeless policy. Merchants understand
by DoreenMichele 6y ago
That's why there's a need for public bathrooms. We are de facto privatizing bathrooms in a way that ends up being an anti homeless policy.
Merchants understandably don't want to provide free bathrooms to the general public even where homelessness is not the driving concern. It costs them money while not making any money, so they limit bathroom access to paying customers if they provide bathroom facilities at all.
- BurningFrog 6y agoThe way I'd solve this politically is allowing construction of vastly more new housing in cities. Then the currently homeless can have an indoor toilet where they live.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoThis isn't actually a discussion of homelessness. It's a discussion of delivery drivers lacking bathroom access. I'm all for more housing, but solving homelessness doesn't actually put a full stop to a need for public bathrooms.
- btmiller 6y agoBut it does make public bathrooms much more manageable.
- DoreenMichele 6y agoSolving homelessness would make a lot of things much more manageable for society generally while being a kind and compassionate response. There is substantial evidence that homelessness is very expensive, to the point where it's just cheaper to give people housing than to, say, keep treating them constantly in the ER. https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-hospitals-house-homeless-0114-story.html https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-hospitals-hou...
- tomjen3 6y agoGood luck getting them to stay there. No doubt there are those who are willing and good you housed them. The rest of them will either get thrown out for drugs/mental illness or ruin the place they move into. And I need my neighbors to be quiet at night so that I can keep my job. That is hard when you need to have the TV on at max volume because you need it to drown out the voices in your head.