New York City and its private buildings are using anti-homeless architecture more than ever in response to the rising tide of the unhoused on city streets.
The Big Apple’s unhoused population regularly face removals for erecting a tent or makeshift hut on streets and sidewalks during a time when the city’s shelter system is stretched thin not only by the high homeless tide, but also the recent arrival of migrants who require care.
Yet in other areas, small steel bumps are installed along the property line of newer buildings to prevent the unhoused from doing just that. Outside of display windowsills and small perches are now often decorated with ugly bumps, or sharp metal railings in order to deter people from resting where they can. Additionally, buildings undergoing facade upgrades with scaffolding utilize chain link fences to block areas where the homeless can find respite.
“You have to create your safe space, sometimes same safety in numbers. You might see a couple of people take over a car so to speak, and you know that okay, so someone’s already sleeping there, I can sleep there and lay out too,” DaBaron explained. “I had to stuff myself in the loops of benches, which is very dangerous to lay out on the bench. You feel trapped. The psychological impact of hostile architecture further establishes you as being not worthy. It sends a message that you’re not welcomed here,” DaBaron said, thinking back to those cold nights alone. “It got to the point where learning how to sleep upright became a thing.”
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