A city in Germany provides these sleeping capsules for homeless people

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  1. Raptor-Jesus666

    Easier to shoot them into space that way, smart.

  2. barry99705

    Man, been a month or so since this was posted again.

  3. irpugboss

    That’s like $600 a month rent in any major US City with first and last down, background check and application fee that is non-refundable.

    Probably just landlord special 20 layers of paint over blood and excrement as well.

    Welcome to Night City USA minus the chrome and fashion lol

  4. Looks too much like those euthanasia capsules, dystopian solution to homelessness?

  5. No_Distribution_5843

    If I had that in my neighborhood I’d move in and never pay rent again.

  6. unclefishbits

    With as much empathy and patience and respect, and with as much understanding of this massively integrated problem that is a web of inescapably confusing nodes, that thing is going to be covered in ship and piss and graffiti within a day… in the United States.

  7. gravy_ferry

    How much do you wanna bet that installing and doing upkeep on these pods costs just as much as building apartments for them

  8. Sp00ky-Chan

    Seems like it would be alot more cost and space effective to just build a homeless shelter rather then a bunch of capsules like this.

  9. Anxious-Park-2851

    More needs to be done to help these people. Creating a safe warm place for them to sleep is a good thing, but how much more can we do to help them.

  10. bartbitsu

    Nice, where I live it would probably get a bunch of garbage in and around it, someone is going to try and turn it into their own personal home that they will not move from, the thing will get broken and anything valuable inside will be stripped.

  11. fantassincarolina

    And then hook them up to harvest their electrical field as a battery. Smart move.

  12. Scribbleme_out

    It’s for homeless people to go in there to sleep
    Then in the middle of the night a truck comes and picks the container up and replaces it with a empty one
    The capsule with the now captured homeless civilian inside is transported to a still unknown place
    There has been many theories onto what they do to the homeless
    Could it be murder? Could it be slavery? Could they become test subjects? Who knows

  13. isselfhatredeffay

    for only fifty times the investment of a basic apartment, homeless people can now sleep in tacky sci-fi coffin!

    I can’t wait until the bombs drop 🙃🙃🙃

  14. EllipticPeach

    Here, get in this fucking metal coffin. That’s how much we respect you.

  15. mangekyo1918

    Public showers too. The thing is someone gotta clean them and provide the soap, wash the blankets, the towels. Someone has to do the work. Would you work on this? It’d be very yucky.

  16. This is just about the opposite of cyberpunk

  17. Moskito10

    which one? i haven’t heard of these yet

  18. boshpaad

    In the US they’d build an entire shack around it and use it as their bed

  19. goliatskipson

    The thing is, if you are homeless in Germany it’s probably on your own volition. I might be naive there, grewing up sheltered and while not rich, not having to think about money too much, but the social net basically means you just have to apply for a home if you are without work. Sure, the state will try to put you back into the work force, but if you play along you can you can live a bare minimum life forever.

  20. Damnight

    I live in the city where these things are from. They are called Ulmer Nest. First of all, there is like two nests in the entire city of ~180k, that’s because what you see is a prototype. There is no viable product (yet? probably never will), only prototypes build in a shed. Second, the homeless shelters here are trash and underfunded. Third, the city loves anti rough sleeper architecture. Like the benches with handlebars in the middle to make it impossible to sleep on them.

    This is another one of those start-up/university ideas that never amount to anything. It has exited for a 5 years now without bearing fruit. Housing first is a way better approach than band aid solutions that serve as a convenient excuse to do nothing.

  21. nailsof6bit

    I’m homeless, but wouldn’t be able to use this at all: claustrophobic, plus have diagnosed and medicated PTSD that means, when someone makes me too uncomfortable in my sleep-casket, I come out pepper-gelling, medicated or not. Awesome intentions, poor execution.

  22. TomBlaidd

    Whereas here in the UK we are about to start issuing fines of £1000 to homeless beggars.

  23. truffleboffin

    I just noticed that OP is a straight up bot

  24. Bambarimba

    In… Germany? For homeless people? Geez

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