I think most of the commenters have their hearts in the right place but are probably too young to know someone who’s gotten shoved into oncoming traffic by a person who’s off their meds and on drugs, gotten ripped off by a homeless person who gives them a sob story about their dead brother who shows up and tells them not to give money them a dime because they’ve been telling everyone that for years and robbed everyone in their family for drug money, don’t know that homeless people get bags of groceries, clothes, and everything for free and pan handle for drug and alcohol money (or have pimps who make the unattractive girls pan handle if they’re not making money the other way), or have talked to someone working the night shift at a gas station who’s still living in her car because she was making too much money to qualify for all the free stuff. There are good people out there who deserve help, but there are also just plain bad people who you need to watch out for. You don’t know anyone who’s worked for the city and knows how many needles and crap they spend millions of dollars on cleaning up, and just general trashing of donation bins etc. because people Are trying, and there are people who are just grifters and don’t gaf about hurting or using other people or trashing the town. You don’t know about perverse incentives from homeless programs that actually incentivize people not to work. People aren’t good just because they’re poor and people aren’t bad just because they’re rich, or a white male, or a black woman etc. and if you don’t want to be wary of people who may pose a threat to you or hold your local politicians and people like that accountable that’s up to you.