A Los Angeles business owner has found a novel way to keep homeless people from camping near his building: playing a children’s song on an annoying loop.

“They played ‘Baby Shark’ all night long,” Tracy, a woman who lives in an encampment next door to the building at the corner of West 11th and Main streets, told NBC4 Los Angeles. “They’re doing everything they can to make us move or drive us crazy. But it’s doing the latter. It’s driving people crazy.”

The building owners began playing the song through a loudspeaker pointed directly at the encampment, which Tracy told the outlet had “kept her and others up all night.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, and people at a homeless encampment in California, right (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images and Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)

Newsom’s office told Fox News Digital that the governor has “actively held communities accountable who do not follow state law to address homelessness”, sharing an example of when the state sued the City of Norwalk in 2024 for “its unlawful ban on homeless shelters.”

The governor’s office added that, while national homelessness went up by nearly 7% last year, California’s increase was only 0.45% and was lower than those of 44 other states.

“Governor Newsom is the first governor to actively address this issue in our state, and he is reversing a crisis that was decades in the making,” Newsom’s office said.

Stepheny Price is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. She covers topics including missing persons, homicides, national crime cases, illegal immigration, and more. Story tips and ideas can be sent to stepheny.price@fox.com