From How to Get Rid of Homeless, a collection of forum posts compiled by Matteo Bittanti and published in January by Concrete Press, Bittanti’s publishing company. The posts, which were made on the website of the video-game company Electronic Arts, address homelessness in the 2013 version of the urban- and social-engineering game SimCity.

I have about 100 homeless. My population is about 220k at the moment. So not exactly a homeless epidemic but I just can’t seem to get them into homes. Every single park in my city is complaining about them. I find it both irritating and depressing that…