Some say city officials and residents do not understand their plight and instead are focused on finding ways to get rid of them since they took over a designated National Recreation Trail. The City Council plans to meet Tuesday to consider declaring a local emergency at the trail site. Last May, members of the Orange County Poverty Alleviation Coalition placed three portable toilets on the trail for the homeless to use. But within days, Anaheim officials removed the outhouses, citing potential health hazards, leaving Schuler and others resorting to buckets and bushes. Homeless advocates have pushed city and county officials for a year to bring portable toilets to the riverbed or open up park bathrooms at night.

Source: Los Angeles Times September 10, 2017 00:29 UTC