Hollywood Businesses Put Potted Cacti on Sidewalks to Discourage Homeless Camps

A few of the plants have been stolen, but otherwise the strategy seems to be working.

Potted cactus plants outside the Assistance League of Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard on May 14, 2024. Jill McLaughlin / The Epoch Times

Retailers and other businesses on Hollywood and Sunset boulevards in Los Angeles hope cactus plants placed on the sidewalk will keep homeless people from setting up encampments outside their doors.

The Assistance League of Los Angeles, a nonprofit that helps homeless and impoverished children, purchased several large wooden planters filled with cacti recently to set outside its headquarters on the 6600 block of Sunset Boulevard.