@furgar a local Catholic church here tried to get around the the regulation because they had always left the chapel open 24/7 for anyone who wanted to come and pray. They'd let the homeless come in too, provided they were quiet and didn't lay down in the pews. They had coffee and donuts and coats and blankets to give em once word got out. It grew enough that the County free shower truck started coming once a week.

Covid changed all that. The County ordered them to lock the Chapel up and wouldn't let them hand out food or clothes any more. They were worried about contagion, as if starvation weren't worse than Covid-19.

I know this because I used to make refried beans for the Church. They'd drop me off a 50-lb bag of pintos and a couple of frozen hamhocks once a month, and I'd convert them to refried beans 10 lbs at a time. The Church would then water them down with chicken broth and serve them as soup at night. My "bean soup" was famous. I'm not even Catholic, I just gave a friend (who's Catholic) a couple of pounds of frozen refried beans when I was cleaning out my freezer and it went from there.

No more bean soup for the homeless. I moved and I've been doing poorly this year, so I'm not up to opening the bean factory again. It was a lot of work but I don't regret it. Most of those homeless were friends and family members of people who lived in the town, not people offloaded here from LA.