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Ignoring the fact that you're generalizing about the vast homeless population and implying that they all are homeless by choice and being a public nuisance by c
by kevingadd 3y ago
Ignoring the fact that you're generalizing about the vast homeless population and implying that they all are homeless by choice and being a public nuisance by choice...
It's worth considering the context that if no business will allow an unhoused person to use the toilet (okay, totally fair - private property!) and we refuse to maintain a sufficient number of public toilets, where are they supposed to defecate?
During COVID this got really extreme. You could be going on a road trip (like when I moved cross-state) and be a paying customer at a gas station or restaurant or grocery store and they all tell you "sorry, no public restroom". What are you supposed to do? Obviously, defecating in public is uncivilized, but we're not giving people many options.
For example, a city as large as San Francisco has a grand total of 25 public toilets: https://www.sfpublicworks.org/services/public-toilets https://www.sfpublicworks.org/services/public-toilets