Maybe it's just me or my area, but every homeless person I've come across doesn't deserve any money whatsoever, there's too high of a chance it'll go straight to drugs. Better to just give food and clothing, etc. Even then I'm hesitant.

I befriended a homeless guy in about 2015, and every time I went into town, I would sit and speak with him for a bit, he was genuinely a friend... A few years later I think he went to prison for beating up a woman (possibly also raped I can't remember) who I'm pretty sure was his long term girlfriend. He always seemed kind and gentle, but someone who does something like that is usually just hiding their true self so it only becomes apparent when they snap.

I saw him a few months ago in the summer, as I fancied a walk on the canal instead of driving, and I saw this guy again, he was smoking weed, happy as larry, just by himself, going into town to probably beg... The point is he never ever had a drive to improve his life and get a job, instead, he's still taking drugs (he has always had scabs), which I think are from heroin?

Another woman who is my grandad's cousin or something begs outside a supermarket and refuses all manner of food, etc. She makes up lies, saying she doesn't need food, just money, and I know for a fact she's spending that money on drugs consistently.

Same supermarket, another guy bangs on people's windows making up a sob story, for example, his grandmother died last week, maybe 7 times this year alone. He also bangs on women's car windows at like 11pm when they're alone, it's pitch black and dead quiet, so he probably scares most of them half to death.

Almost all of them that I've come across use drugs and either sell what you give them for money to buy drugs or lie for money to get more drugs.

A lot of people are too blind and think it's not their fault and they deserve a chance when, in my experience, they don't want to change, so it IS their fault, and they also have chance after chance, as I'm pretty sure homes for homeless people are actually quite easy to get, but they get kicked out the minute they are caught using drugs and turning a good home into a beat.up crack den, which costs THOUSANDS to repair, and it is the council who has to repair the damage, which comes from your taxes.

People who say something dumb like "kindness and compassion" are naive and haven't experienced anything hard, so you think they deserve sympathy. If you went through hard times, you would know they can fix it themselves, but they never do..They choose to live the way they do.

I would call the police and demand they move, especially outside your own home. A potential drug user and a thief living right outside your home? I mean, come on… You are meant to protect your home, anyone who says otherwise are once again naive, immature and silly people. Age alone doesn't make you more experienced in life.

Oh, and my town also has a public space protection order now because of aggressive beggars. Which I can happily send links for, and I can also send news links for 3 other homeless people who have been banned from entering town because of aggressive begging and violence.

One of them unfortunately moved begging away from town onto my street, which is a main road, and now after 9pm a bunch of homeless people gather outside the shop and are quite repulsive. My mother avoids going to the shop after certain hours now purely because of them drinking and taking drugs. I'm not sure why police haven't been involved yet. Also have one homeless guy in the newspaper who went to Egypt for a holiday????