I wouldn't even say that it's to be able to charge homeless people - how are they going to pay? It wouldn't be particularly smart financially.
It's more about just not having them there. Say what you want, but if a bus stop reeks, it makes it much less attractive to take public transit. Of course, it just moves the problem somewhere else - but the transit authority doesn't have to worry about it too much anymore.
Kintarian@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
That’s just mean
lettruthout@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Welcome to today‘s USA.
Nemo@slrpnk.net 11 hours ago
Anti-homeless antics are neither recent nor limited to America.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I have never heard of a western democracy that has a witch hunt against homeless people to near the degree that is common in USA.
So yes the evil against homeless people is mostly limited to America. USA has become the dystopia SciFi stories warned us against since a century ago.
DebatableRaccoon@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Welcome to people. Instead of fixing the homelessness, governments would prefer to make the situation worse while doing their best to ignore it.