text:  Like so many other sidewalks in the city, it was not safe for people to walk by. There were homeless drug addicts all over the place, setting up their tents and their camps and everything else. Human waste all over the place, very disgusting. As you can imagine, businesses were suffering, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy because the businesses around this block, people didn't wanna go there because of all the homeless people. So residents and business owners got together,