https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr-edge-international-philanthropic-071123.html#:~:text=By%20prioritizing%20the%20Housing%20First,success%20at%20effectively%20addressing%20homelessness.

Through an innovative public policy strategy that has virtually eliminated homelessness within its borders

This is probably the least dickish way to go about it.

I think your instant assumption about it being done for evil says more about the country you live than it does about Finland, because homelessness doesn't seem to be a big issue in Finland. That's ~5k homeless people in a country with ~5 million people, that's ~0.1% of the population being homeless.

We don't have homeless people on finland. Or we do but quite minimally, the numbers are in couple thousand if I recall right

In this case Finland actually takes care of their people and homelessness isn't a problem there. They're just really polite introverts who I might guess prefer sitting alone as opposed to on a bench close to others.

Source - my introverted niece met a Fin, fell in love, moved to Finland and is in absolute heaven. Her husband has visited the States a few times and is always overwhelmed with the casual social interactions with strangers in public.

It's clearly a one person bus without wheels

That's what I thought. IMHO, hostile architecture is the physical-world equivalent of a lot of the policies that led us to flee Reddit, Twitter, etc.

My first thought. You could put up three 2 person benches there without too much trouble. It'd still look fine with spaces between so people can sit alone.

Coffin full of hot rocks

Thanks I came 👍

Maybe you prefer to block a second seat, when you sit on a two person bank. ^^

Not getting sunlight for months in a row tends to make people depressed.

Gotta back off further than that, yo.