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it’s not just in America. all over Europe you have "hostile architecture"[1]; for example, benches designed to be uncomfortable so that homeless people don’t sleep on them

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture

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There is a lot more of this in the US than anywhere else in the world though, and that's because the US also has by far the worst homeless problem.

...very rarely to the extent of US.

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