[permo-w]

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

[rippercushions]

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.

[goodpoint]

...very rarely to the extent of US.