Personal space

When the city government wants to install anti-homeless benches, but doesn’t want the backlash from installing anti-homeless benches.

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
- It is a lot better than other places but not literally 0.
  Per this report, as of 2021 they had 4396 homeless people. A rate of 0.79 per thousand people in Finland.
  Which to be clear is stellar.. but doesn't have much to do with the topic of anti homeless architecture.
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.
- 0.1% is big. I want to see 0%.
- The US is roughly the same percentage and it was definitely a comment from a US political frame. In the US they are simply more visible as they congregate in cities.
- Also 70% of those homeless people are living with friends or relatives
We don't have homeless people on finland. Or we do but quite minimally, the numbers are in couple thousand if I recall right
- It's around 4,400. It bears mentioning that the population of Finland is only around 4.5 million. The Dallas Fort Worth Metro area has a population of about 6.5 million and a homeless population of around 4,500

One person benches

Chair. That's a chair

Is there a hostile architecture community here?

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.
- Finn here, we still have a ton of those stupid benches with a railing in the middle.
- Holy shit, can someone please get me to Finland?
- I was born to the wrong culture, said in Canadian.

"one person benches" you mean chairs?

It's clearly a one person bus without wheels

Those are chairs

We have single person benches in my city not because people don't want to sit next to each other, but so homeless people can't sleep on them.

or anti homeless space

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.

I can see the appeal of this in some ways, but I hope there are also two-person benches in the same area because when I'm, for example, out with my daughter and we both want to sit down for a minute, it's nice not to have to yell to talk to each other.

Or spread your arms if you are alone

Probably a shit-ton if the seats on the plane are spaced out the same way

Apparently they're being made by Sineu Graff from Denmark and this is somewhere in Helsinki, but I heard that those aren't too common in Finland, so hold your horses, you isolationists ;)

That one person who still comes up to you and asks if they can sit next to you

This is intolerant against fat people! It is super uncomfortable when one butt cheek slaps over on each side!

Thanks I came 👍

Now do saunas

Coffin full of hot rocks

Why does this make me sad? I ironically do actually prefer seating alone but something about this doesn’t feel right

Maybe you prefer to block a second seat, when you sit on a two person bank. ^^
- I actually think that it has more to do with the fact that i prefer to sit alone but i don’t straight up want to make sure that i don’t speak to any stranger ever again
  But then again i don’t like too much socializing, ig my brain just doesn’t know what it wants
Too much space between them.