🌱 At Disneyland, you're always within 30 feet of a trash can
Thread by @JudahFromTexas on Thread Reader App
At Disneyland, you’re always within 30 feet of a trash can. This is deliberate. You never see litter on park grounds. In our actual cities? Not a trash can in sight. It’s a form of hostile architecture. We blame litter on the homeless instead of bad design.
Policy choices.
This is also true for public restrooms. And public spaces in general. Does your city have any place where you can use a restroom or sit down for a rest inside without having to buy something?
If it does, how frequent are they? Are they accessible?
I hear complaints about the homeless population in Austin. The solution to public urination is not jail. It’s universal public restrooms. The solution to litter is not tickets and sweeps. It’s a trash can on every corner.
We need to get rid of our punitive mindsets, y’all.
Every single complaint that people lodge against the homeless population here is the result of a policy choice.
We need to stop blaming others for our own failures.
also, re: 2nd tweet where are they? does their placement follow the same historic lines of economic and/or racial segregation in your city?
https://twitter.com/JudahFromTexas/status/1403234758134419456
this thread is blowing up so…. Austin just passed Prop B which will criminalize homelessness in our city and force people who are already suffering into shame and hiding
@atxecho is helping house people and provide services, please share+donate:
austinecho.org/get-involved/d…
TX recently voted to further criminalize public urination instead of making it easier to build free public restrooms Our priorities are off, y’all.
Shoutout to @GinaForAustin and @jasminefor100 for standing up for what’s right in the lege on this issue
https://twitter.com/GinaForAustin/status/1384254663659200513
Nobody wants public urination, litter, or any of the other things that decrease the livability of our cities.
But we cannot keep laying blame on the people who are forced to do things when there are no alternatives by design.
people are reading way too far into the disney analogy of course it’s flawed- my point is that when you make the right thing the easiest thing to do, people will do that thing
a key role of government is to manage and create incentives- and this is one such case
of course, sanitation workers are a key part of this equation as well, which (unlike the underpaid workers at Disneyland) is also a convenient place to create well-paid, unionized, government jobs
just a thought