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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwe4z7/some-san-franciscans-are-trying- to-get-rid-of-homeless-people-with-boulders-heres-how-thats-going

Instead of helping settle anything, the boulders have caused activists and neighbors to go to war.

UPDATED Sept. 30, 2:05 p.m.: Residents of the neighborhood have since
asked the city to remove the boulders, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, saying they were being targeted by anti-boulder opponents. The
city announced Monday that the boulders will soon be moved.

Original story: Some well-to-do San Franciscans trying to stop homeless
people from sleeping in their neighborhood decided to invest in 24 large boulders to block a stretch of sidewalk.

It’s not going too well.

The boulders first appeared on the sidewalk about two weeks ago, bringing
with them a hint of mystery and a lot of outrage. (Some activists thought
the city had purchased the large rocks, but neighbors stepped forward to
say they'd banded together to raise nearly $2,000 for the boulders, which
they saw as necessary. The city says the rocks are legal and won’t remove them.)

"You're looking at a turf war one night. It got to the point where
everybody was just done,” one anonymous boulder-bringer told KGO, a local
ABC affiliate. “People had knives and guns and people were out fighting, carrying on, and waking up people in the neighborhood."

But instead of helping settle anything, the boulders have caused activists
and neighbors to go to war. Some activists see the boulders as
representative of San Francisco’s disdain for the poor, and have pushed
the rocks into the street at least three times in the past week, according
to SFist.

“It’s unfortunate that people are pushing them off the sidewalk and onto
the road. It’s not a safe thing to do,” Rachel Gordon, a spokesperson for
the city’s department of public works, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Every time the rocks get pushed into the road, city employees place them
back on the sidewalk.

But they might not be there very long.

One artist listed the rocks for free on Craigslist last week, inviting
people to come pick them up. KPIX-5, the local CBS affiliate, has dubbed
these events the “boulder battle.”

San Francisco's situation is one of the nation’s worst examples of
unchecked, rising rents and vast wealth disparity. (Rents there have begun
to stabilize, but there’s still a dire lack of affordable housing.) As a result, its homeless population has swelled to about 9,800 — an increase
of 30 percent since 2017. The Bay Area also lacks adequate shelter beds to house all of its homeless people, and residents have repeatedly attempted
to block any new potential shelters.

The current boulder battle isn't the first time the city has attempted to
use boulders to prevent campsites: A photo of a rainbow-colored “pride”
boulder in San Francisco meant to deter the homeless even went viral in
June. There've been other forms of so-called “hostile architecture,” too,
like ledges with spikes or sharp bars to prevent people from lying down. A Catholic church in San Francisco even made national headlines in 2015
after it installed sprinklers above its doors to soak homeless people who sought refuge there.

Hostility toward the homeless goes beyond the neighborhood level.
President Donald Trump, when visiting San Francisco earlier this month, commented that homeless people were ruining the city’s “best highways, our
best streets, our best entrances to buildings.” His administration then
told California it was violating environmental water quality standards,
citing excrement from homeless people making its way into the Pacific
Ocean.

“They have to clean it up,” Trump said of San Francisco. “We can’t have
our cities going to hell.”

Cover: 10 May 2019, US, San Francisco: Homeless people have set up camp
near the headquarters of Uber, Twitter and other tech companies. A
homeless guy pushes a shopping cart with his belongings along Market
Street. The Twitter headquarters is in the background. Photo by: Barbara Munker/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images



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