If you don’t have services for the homeless, you don’t have homeless. We have nothing for the homeless in our town and we generally only have one at any given time and they generally refuse to sleep indoors (mental).
I’ve been approached twice in the past week by panhandlers in my little suburban strip mall shopping area. I’ve lived in this area all my life and have NEVER been approached by panhandlers before. Either Obama’s Summer of Recovery has really been a massive fail, or panhandling has become a very lucrative “job” in the Obama economy....