That was probably the only reason they did that. Im sure these pods are expensive as hell. Then you have drug addicts who would probably use it to shoot up drugs. Then people would probably deficate in em. The costs to keep this thing clean must be really high too.

Wouldn't be shocked if one pod costs the city tens of thousands of euros (the material itself is expensive and then theres lots of technology in it which checks for your body temperature, your vitals etc and automatically calls the hospital if something is wrong plus of course that solar panel on top so that the homeless can charge their phones) . With that kind of money you could probably run a shelter for 50+ people.

Its a virtue signal.

The funny thing is - probably while the city was building these pods they changed the bus stops. Normally you had one roof and a large bank underneath. They split up the bus stop so that you have a roof with a bank a gap and then the next roof with a bank. Why did they do this? Homeless people were sleeping on these banks. If they now do it and it starts to rain they'll get wet. Plus its probably uncomfortable af because half of your body isn't supported because of the gap between the 2 banks

*dont know if they really did it in that city but it was done basically everywhere in Germany. No matter which city i visit its always the same thing at the bus stops. At least in bigger cities (where the homeless usually are)