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Hacks for Locker Management

Lockers can offer a rare sense of security and stability for people who carry their belongings with them. To keep the system fair and functional, it’s important to have clear expectations, consistent rules, and a plan for managing demand.

  • Post signage clearly and in multiple languages.
  • Walk people through expectations for using the facilities first, and enforce any boundaries consistently.
  • Keep a waitlist.

Featured Hacks

These featured hacks highlight creative, practical solutions from harm reduction leaders on the ground. From DIY tools to clever workarounds, each one reflects the ingenuity, care, and real-world experience that keeps this movement alive. 

Over and over, harm reduction leaders interviewed for Space Hacks centered the creation of community as central to their efforts to create safe, humane harm reduction spaces services that are trauma-informed and minimize the potential for escalated situations.
These principles were developed over a period of about four years in the 1990s amid much debate among early harm reductionists, who came to consensus on these enduring principles of harm reduction.