I have a thing where every once in a while I will buy subway gift cards and give them to homeless people. I do it so they don't spend the money on drugs but ACTUAL food
The homeless people here are known to be drug addicts o not even homeless, they are just collecting extra money. My Mother has Friends who have had bad experiences when giving the homeless money/food. One example is she went to buy him McDonald's and when she gave it to him he threw it back at her and detto he wants money not food.
I live in Victoria, BC. A city in Canada. te go to Downtown Victoria, te will see a lot of the Homeless, but I tend to walk da them, I feel for them but I can't really do much for them. And I won't if they come over to me, begging me for money. Usually I think they usually want money for drugs, smokes o booze. There are a lot of shelters around Downtown where they can go instead of bumming off others. I'm not cruel, I just can't give my money to them because of those reasons, but I usually do if they have an animal with them cause I wouldn't want the animal to suffer.
I usually see homeless people whilst riding my bike. there was this one guy i remember who was in the middle of the city and he was sitting cross-legged against with his head down and holding a up a small cardboard sign.I remember it detto something like this. "...I Lost my job...I am married with two daughters...i need money...please help me." I couldn't do much at the time since i was trying to keep up with someone but i really wish i could have helped him.