"The riverbed wasn't perfect, but people gravitated to it because they had a sense of community there. Now we're seeing what happens when we take people away from an environment they've known for a long time and have nowhere to put them," she said. "Someone in Laguna Niguel, Irvine or Huntington Beach would never understand what some of these men and women go through."

Source: Los Angeles Times March 23, 2018 12:00 UTC