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    8 hours ago

    Why are the homeless camping in the subway? Doesn’t that mean they’ve already passed down from further up this displacement chain and the subway is also a victim of the same thing?

    The subway is an inanimate location, it can not be a victim. The people of the city that may use the subway are a victim, but less so than if the subway was made less hospitable for everyone without improving the situation of the homeless in the city.

    Asking the subway to house the homeless in their corridors is about as helpful as just telling those homeless people to stop being homeless.

    All it would take for the homeless to stop being homeless is for the cops to stop throwing homeless people out of buildings that haven’t been used for a year. Homeless people are constantly doing their best to stop being homeless, and the state and other people keep violently attacking them to make them homeless again.

    Meanwhile all it would take for the subway organisation is to do its job of making the subway a nice place to be. If that makes it the nicest place homeless don’t get attacked by cops, that’s not the subway organisation’s fault.