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Los Angeles to join New York and 50 other U.S. cities with ban on feeding homeless people
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As the number of homeless people in Los Angeles County [URL='http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-hud-homeless-20131121,0,1923578.story#ixzz2lmMZePiN']continues to rise
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City Council members Tom LaBonge and Mitch O'Farrell, both Democrats, introduced the resolution after complaints from Los Angeles residents. Arguing that meal lines should be moved indoors, the legislators said the proposal would benefit both the homeless and residential neighborhoods.
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But advocates for the homeless say public officials are attempting to legislate the poor into invisibility instead of helping those in need.
"It's a common but misguided tactic to drive homeless people out of downtown areas," Jerry Jones, the executive director of the National Coalition of the Homeless, said to [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/us/as-homeless-line-up-for-food-los-angeles-weighs-restrictions.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1385488949-EHfl90CKNcGEuq3XF2Ou2Q&pagewanted=print']The New York Times
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"This is an attempt to make difficult problems disappear," said Jones. "It's both callous and ineffective."
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[/URL]Los Angeles would join "dozens of cities in recent years" including Philadelphia, Raleigh, N.C., and Orlando, Fla. that have either enacted or at least debated legislation aimed at regulating the public feeding of the homeless. Over 50 cities have previously adopted some kind of anti-camping or anti-food-sharing laws, according to the [URL='http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-06-10/cities-crack-down-on-homeless/55479912/1']National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty.
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/please-dont-feed-the-homeless
http://www.sott.net/article/269292-Los-Angeles-to-join-New-York-and-50-other-US-cities-with-ban-on-feeding-homeless-people