I don’t see this as anti-homless, just anti-fat homeless. It looks big enough that an average person could just lay inside the rings of the arm rests.
Put your blankets over them and make a little tunnel fort.
They already beat you to this. Look at the difference between the closest and second closest rungs. One is much squatter than the other. Which is also just shit for sitting, having two different height arm rests sucks if you have chronic pain. Because yeah otherwise you could probably make a decent swag out of it.
There was a guy going around St. Louis giving out wrenches to homeless people to remove them, and there was a guy going around Seattle just removing them himself. IDK if the sentiment has spread to other cities, I can only speak about the places I have lived and seen news reports about this.
Can it really be considered vandalism if you improve public property?
This bench needs just one accessory
