Don't help the homeless, critics say - it hurts them

Posted: Thursday, December 28, 2017 2:06 pm | Updated: 2:30 pm, Thu Dec 28, 2017.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Mohammed Aly does not see why he shouldn't try to ease the lives of Orange County's homeless. But the authorities — and many of his neighbors — disagree.

Aly, a 28-year-old lawyer and activist, has been arrested three times as he campaigned on behalf of street people. Recently, he was denied permission to install portable toilets on a dried-up riverbed, site of an encampment of roughly 400 homeless.

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