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Can helping homeless hurt them?

By tj

Here's an article in the Chron regarding attorneys helping fight homeless citations.

Essential premise: had attorneys not fought a particular homeless man's citations, he would not have died by OD'ing in the city's public library.

Do well-intentioned lawyers actually end up doing more harm than good?

It's a particularly relevant question for us to ask as (1) we have a ton of homeless in Berkeley; and (2) we've got a number of students and professors who volunteer in this way.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on March 13, 2008 (boomark / email).