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Is 'SimCity' Homelessness a Bug Or a Feature?

sarahnaomi writes: SimCity players have discussed a variety of creative strategies for their virtual homelessness problem. They've suggested waiting for natural disasters like tornadoes to blow the vagrants away, bulldozing parks where they congregate, or creating such a woefully insufficient city infrastructure that the homeless would leave on their own.

You can read all of these proposed final solutions in Matteo Bittanti's How to Get Rid of Homelessness, "a 600-page epic split in two volumes documenting the so-called 'homeless scandal' that affected 2013's SimCity." Bittanti collected, selected, and transcribed thousands of these messages exchanged by players on publisher Electronic Arts' official forums, Reddit, and the largest online SimCity community Simtropolis, who experienced and then tried to "eradicate" the phenomenon of homelessness that "plagued" SimCity."

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  1. Re:Does SimCity allow you to.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

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  2. Re:SimCity 2000 available for free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    ... Yes, it's ENTIRELY LEGAL.

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  3. Re:SimCity 2000 available for free by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

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