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Is there no room for grocery stores and restaurants too, since all humans need food? If you’re looking for a role for government here, I could see budgeting in

• trogdor 2y ago
  > I could see budgeting in some tax breaks for local businesses that make their restrooms publicly accessible. People significantly underestimate the cost of maintaining clean public restrooms in urban areas. When restrooms are used properly, maintenance costs are reasonable and predictable. But that is not what happens. Restrooms contain private areas, and that reality invites other uses, like drug use, prostitution, and sleeping. And those uses come at a steep cost. Separately, in my experience, many businesses do make their restrooms available to people who look presentable and who ask politely. They just don’t advertise it, and they may even advertise the opposite.