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Third places and neighborhood entrepreneurship (2024)

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122 points WasimBhai | 2 comments | 25 Jun 25 12:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.39s | source
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sneak ◴[25 Jun 25 12:30 UTC] No.44376526[source]▶
I’m pretty sure I would move to a city anywhere in the world based primarily on the availability of high quality 24 hour third places.
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y-curious ◴[25 Jun 25 15:24 UTC] No.44378377[source]▶
With an American-centric view, how do you deal with homeless people using them as shelter? Like, Korea/Japan have those cheap gaming booths, but that would never work in America because of the aforementioned issue. The want would be an exclusive third place that has the people you'd want to meet with.
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1. sneak ◴[25 Jun 25 15:31 UTC] No.44378463[source]▶
Third place doesn’t mean free. Churches and bars (the existing American third places) seem to have mechanisms for addressing this presently.
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2. Nasrudith ◴[27 Jun 25 17:05 UTC] No.44398419[source]▶
Some churches see providing shelter for the homeless as an outright feature instead of a bug to correct. Sadly they tend to face backlash from neighbors for this. I know of one pastor who had a rather sad career trajectory from trying to do the right thing in setting up a homeless shelter at a church. The whole negative reception she received for being the only one doing the right thing was downright sick.