using disabled people as an excuse for creating hostile architecture is not just some BS PR excuse - it attempts to publicly position disabled people as the enemies of the unhoused, and falsely implies that the only way to accommodate us is to dis-accommodate them. It is evil. https://twitter.com/CloHiggins/status/1391083611860967426

I assure you, any agency who modifies or replaces public accommodations to make them less friendly to sitting & laying and claims that it is "the only way" to accommodate disabled users is flatly lying to you. They were told this is a successful way to pitch hostile architecture.

Were they sincere in their interest to modify their city, township, village, neighborhood or transit service to better accommodate us, the efforts would not begin and end with rendering benches unusable.

Also, the loss of public spaces for temporarily lying down EXPLICLTLY harms disabled people, like me, for whom that can be vital for briefly recovering to prevent a flare-up of my condition that will send me home.