So for now, they live with roughly 1,000 others of their species in a sheltered habitat ringed by barbed wire and draped in netting.

At Pepperdine University, where students sheltered in place as the fire raged, normal operations will resume Monday.

“I sheltered him too much and I think there’s a little resentment from that.”

As the protests deepened and tear gas became a common sight, many sheltered behind umbrellas, spawning a new moniker - the Umbrella Movement.

The county’s total homeless population as of January, including sheltered and unsheltered people, was essentially unchanged from the year before, about 75,000.