In 2014, attorneys for homeless activist Arnold Abbott, who passed away last year, challenged a new city ordinance against sharing food with the homeless, and the city stopped enforcing it, in part because of the universal condemnation. Meanwhile, a still unresolved federal lawsuit from the same period filed by human rights group Food Not Bombs will likely wind up costing the city hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to an attorney working for the group. And who could forget the 10 homeless people whose belongings were destroyed by the city of Fort Lauderdale in 2017 and were later awarded $40,000 as part of a lawsuit settlement.