Residents in a San Francisco neighborhood have lined a sidewalk with boulders in an effort to stop homeless people from camping out, KTVU-TV is reporting.
About 24 boulders line a half-block of sidewalk on Clinton Park, a residential side street not far from Market and Dolores streets. Neighbors are trying to keep drug users from shooting up in their street.
"They'll shoot up and stay overnight," said David Smith-Tan, a resident.
He said neighbors chipped in a few hundred dollars and came up with the boulders.
“It has helped,” neighbor Ernesto Jerez told the television station.
Jennifer Friedenbach, executive director of the Coalition On Homeless, noted: "There's actually a name for it. It's called anti-homeless architecture."
Similar measures have been put in place in other sections of the city.
"It's something,” Jerez said. “We've got to do something. I feel like there is nothing being done.”
Meanwhile the city’s public works department said the it had nothing to do with the boulders. And a spokeswoman said since the boulders are not blocking the sidewalk, the city is not planning to remove them.
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