Basically to discourage rough sleeping. It’s an unfortunate situation, as it’s not exactly compassionate to remove benches/wifi/play sounds to keep people away/etc…, but at the same time you don’t want the local library to become a junky haunt, or something like that. My mother’s old place of work was a downtown location with a lawn that homeless people used to hop the fence to sleep on. They had a guy on payroll who’s job was to come every morning and clean up the human feces that would be left behind. Ultimately, it reflects policy failures. Businesses or venues don’t really have the tools to deal with the problem besides offloading it onto somewhere else.
Basically to discourage rough sleeping. It’s an unfortunate situation, as it’s not exactly compassionate to remove benches/wifi/play sounds to keep people away/etc…, but at the same time you don’t want the local library to become a junky haunt, or something like that. My mother’s old place of work was a downtown location with a lawn that homeless people used to hop the fence to sleep on. They had a guy on payroll who’s job was to come every morning and clean up the human feces that would be left behind. Ultimately, it reflects policy failures. Businesses or venues don’t really have the tools to deal with the problem besides offloading it onto somewhere else.