These aren't decorative. Homeowners in San Francisco raised $2,000 to place 24, 100-pound boulders on the sidewalks of Dolores and Market streets to keep homeless residents from setting up tents. Yet they have the nerve to call themselves progressive.
Benches at the Mcarthur BART Station in Oakland. Designed to prevent the homeless from sleeping on them. Another "progressive" Bay Area city.
Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco
San Francisco's Mission District
Planters in Portland, OR to prevent the homeless from taking refuge under bridges
Noise machine on a 7-11 in downtown Portland to keep the homeless from congregating.
A public library in San Francisco's Castro district. A sidewalk in Sacramento. Unknown
A man tries to sleep on a Los Angeles bench designed with barriers to limit movement.
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