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Homeless people really need public bathrooms! Showers would be great, too. So far, even west coast cities haven't really begun to attempt to build public bathroom infrastructure at any scale (AFAIK). Not in Seattle, anyway.

Here, there are public parks, but often those bathrooms (and drinking fountains) are closed in the winter.

There are some of these public toilets near the high-density of homeless in Vancouver, Canada, but not nearly enough.

I wouldn't have thought so, a charity would unlikely do anything tangible, not in practice. The "unit" cost would be too high to accommodate their needs, as they'd be exclusive. (i.e. they need a place to hang out and non-homeless people would not go there). Likely better off set against the general flow of people through SB's or wherever - not that that is a remotely complete solution.

Unfortunately this isn't about helping people. I think they feel pressured to do some thing related to the physical stores to avoid an optics problem. And this is the problem they are trying to solve, not poverty.