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Teddy Siegel

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Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

I've done it.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

I've done it.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

Is it so bad? Is it so terrible? I think it's not a great idea. One, businesses can pick and choose who they let into their bathroom, and that leaves a lot of room for discrimination. Plus, a lot of businesses just don't want to be a public bathroom provider.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

Is it so bad? Is it so terrible? I think it's not a great idea. One, businesses can pick and choose who they let into their bathroom, and that leaves a lot of room for discrimination. Plus, a lot of businesses just don't want to be a public bathroom provider.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

Is it so bad? Is it so terrible? I think it's not a great idea. One, businesses can pick and choose who they let into their bathroom, and that leaves a lot of room for discrimination. Plus, a lot of businesses just don't want to be a public bathroom provider.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

So providing toilets has just fallen into this huge crack where some of our most complicated needs also get stuck, like housing, healthcare, education, somewhere between a market solution and a government one. The pure market solution would be to bring back pay toilets. Have a bougie $10-a-visit boutique pay toilet, Insta-ready with neon, music playing, oons-oons, fresh-cut flowers.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

So providing toilets has just fallen into this huge crack where some of our most complicated needs also get stuck, like housing, healthcare, education, somewhere between a market solution and a government one. The pure market solution would be to bring back pay toilets. Have a bougie $10-a-visit boutique pay toilet, Insta-ready with neon, music playing, oons-oons, fresh-cut flowers.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

So providing toilets has just fallen into this huge crack where some of our most complicated needs also get stuck, like housing, healthcare, education, somewhere between a market solution and a government one. The pure market solution would be to bring back pay toilets. Have a bougie $10-a-visit boutique pay toilet, Insta-ready with neon, music playing, oons-oons, fresh-cut flowers.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

If you're balling on a budget, You get fake flowers and you pay $2. And then there's the no frills, but you just gotta go option. That is 25 cents. But that wouldn't serve people who can't pay at all, like people without homes who arguably need them the most. The pure government solution would mean treating bathrooms like a true public good, something everyone can benefit from together.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

If you're balling on a budget, You get fake flowers and you pay $2. And then there's the no frills, but you just gotta go option. That is 25 cents. But that wouldn't serve people who can't pay at all, like people without homes who arguably need them the most. The pure government solution would mean treating bathrooms like a true public good, something everyone can benefit from together.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

If you're balling on a budget, You get fake flowers and you pay $2. And then there's the no frills, but you just gotta go option. That is 25 cents. But that wouldn't serve people who can't pay at all, like people without homes who arguably need them the most. The pure government solution would mean treating bathrooms like a true public good, something everyone can benefit from together.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

But that means convincing taxpayers to foot what can be a hefty bill. San Francisco infamously planned to buy one public toilet for more than a million dollars. So the search is on for the right blend of government and market solutions. tax breaks for businesses that allow the public to go, or tokens instead of quarters for bathroom locks, which would get around the ban on pay toilets.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

But that means convincing taxpayers to foot what can be a hefty bill. San Francisco infamously planned to buy one public toilet for more than a million dollars. So the search is on for the right blend of government and market solutions. tax breaks for businesses that allow the public to go, or tokens instead of quarters for bathroom locks, which would get around the ban on pay toilets.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

But that means convincing taxpayers to foot what can be a hefty bill. San Francisco infamously planned to buy one public toilet for more than a million dollars. So the search is on for the right blend of government and market solutions. tax breaks for businesses that allow the public to go, or tokens instead of quarters for bathroom locks, which would get around the ban on pay toilets.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

Meanwhile, in the city of New York, they are no longer banned.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

Meanwhile, in the city of New York, they are no longer banned.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

Meanwhile, in the city of New York, they are no longer banned.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

In 2006, the city announced they'd add 20 pay toilets to the 1,000 or so public toilets in the city. They installed seven... And the others have been in storage since. Apparently, they're pretty hard to install and maintain. So does anyone have a quarter? Let me check. I don't think I do. Public toilet influencer and opera singer Teddy Siegel took me to see the very first one they installed.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

In 2006, the city announced they'd add 20 pay toilets to the 1,000 or so public toilets in the city. They installed seven... And the others have been in storage since. Apparently, they're pretty hard to install and maintain. So does anyone have a quarter? Let me check. I don't think I do. Public toilet influencer and opera singer Teddy Siegel took me to see the very first one they installed.

Planet Money
Why it's so hard to find a public toilet

In 2006, the city announced they'd add 20 pay toilets to the 1,000 or so public toilets in the city. They installed seven... And the others have been in storage since. Apparently, they're pretty hard to install and maintain. So does anyone have a quarter? Let me check. I don't think I do. Public toilet influencer and opera singer Teddy Siegel took me to see the very first one they installed.