Senate bill aims to prohibit use of hostile architecture preventing homeless camps
mynorthwest.com
If architecture is erected specifically "to prevent people from sitting or lying at street" level, it would be prohibited.

Senate Bill 6231 defines hostile architecture as “elements designed to restrict the use of public spaces by individuals experiencing homelessness.” (A PDF of the original bill can be viewed here.)

In the past, those elements have included fencing, large boulders and gravel. If the elements are erected specifically “to prevent people from sitting or lying at street” level, they would be prohibited.

  • Kiosade
    7·
    1 year ago

    What? Experiences can be both good and bad…

    Edit: I see what you’re getting at now.

      • alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgOPM
        9·
        1 year ago

        Some will say “take wins where you can get them,” but I would not call this a win at all. Might actually cause a backlash against the homeless population over there.

        being homeless is criminalized de facto in most Washington cities and if you polled the public on Hitlerite solutions to the problem a majority would likely agree with them. taking “this might cause a backlash” into consideration here is accordingly pointless; the backlash already exists and already actively informs policy for the worse. it’s incumbent on people to fight back against that by pursuing better policy, of which this is one.