My take is that if the public space was skateboarder and homeless friendly, the author could easily write a similar article on how that scares [insert other victim group] away from the public space.
There a difference between not designing for being homeless friendly and designing spikes to prevent homeless people from sleeping in the area.
What's the difference? (This is a serious question. Of course, I know some reasons why people think they are different, but I don't think the reasons that I can think of stand up to examination.)
If it's worth saying, but not worth its own post (even in Discussion), then it goes here.
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