Church faces daily $100 fine for housing homeless on its lot, battles with neighbours

‘While helping the homeless may be God’s work, housing them on property not zoned for it isn’t, according to one Delaware county. Victory Church near Dover is racking up $100-a-day fines for housing a young, blind mother in an RV in its parking lot.
Alexis Simms, 21, is blind, pregnant and suffering from lupus. At the end of September, Victory Church Pastor Aaron Appling, a passionate advocate for helping the homeless, bought a $10,500 camper for Simms, her mother and her 2.5-year-old daughter to live in. The RV is parked on church property behind the building.
“We want to stand up for her,” Appling told WCAU. “Because there is nobody else to stand up for her.”’
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