Photo gallery: Orange County’s riverside homeless begin trading tents for motels

Kathy Schuler, 62, left, is given a hug by her granddaughter Ashley Foster, 23, where they live at a homeless encampment. 

Jacob Serrano, 39, walks back to his tent where he lives with his wife at a homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River in Anaheim.

Ivan Reyes, who has been living in the Santa Ana River trail homeless encampment for the past two months, carries an American flag along with his belongings.

"Just because it's an ugly day doesn't mean I have to be ugly," said Morgan Mermaid Gallerito, shown holding her homemade dream catcher at a large homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River trail.

Alice Simpson, 57, of Alabama, waits to board an OCTA bus after receiving a 30-day motel voucher from the Orange County Health Care Agency.

Linda O'Reilly, homeless for five years, moves her belongings out of the large encampment along the Santa Ana River trail.

Hundreds of homeless people camped by the river trail prepare to leave.

John Kasten, 60, and his dog Sebastian hang out at the homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River in Anaheim.

Anaheim police officers urge people to get help at a Community Outreach Day camp in the parking lot of Angel Stadium.

Lisa Bell, 51, right, gets a hug from a friend who stopped by to visit her at the homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River.

Orange County sheriff's deputies, left, question a man while responding to a report of an individual in the flood channel with a weapon. 

U.S. District Judge David Carter, center, flanked by attorney Brooke Weitzman, left, and Marianne VanRiper, senior assistant county council, surveys the homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River.

Daryl Woods, 47, cleans up around his homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River.

Residents of this apartment complex have complained about the rows and rows of homeless encamped along the Santa Ana River.