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Oregon woman invites homeless couple to live in her yard, neighbors upset

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PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) -- A woman in her 70s is having a tough time upkeeping her home, so she invited a homeless couple to live in her backyard to help with yard work.

"They're helping me clean around, you know mowing..." Flor Hillard said. "Sometimes I've been telling them to clean up... And they're lazy."

Hillard doesn't know how much longer she's going to let them stay in her backyard. She wasn't aware that it was illegal to allow any type of camping in people's backyards.

Neighbors say the campers have been there since June and it wasn't until recently that they noticed that they were there.