It's unbelievable that this program has been in operation for almost 15 years, and now all of a sudden the bureaucrats decide it can't go on. Given the location where they are currently handing out the food, and the place where they city wants to move them, I think that student is right - can't let the homeless hang around a nice area...
I don't think the college kids are right. When society has rules they need to abide by them. The reason for this is there have been too many cases of people suing for different reasons and the government gets sick of it and has rules to hopefully stop the suing.