Believe me or not, but there are more good people than evil in this crazy world of ours
I truly believe that this statement is true. I think about 9/10 of the world are good people that will help others if the need arises. In my own community there was a single homeless dude that popped up in the median outside of Wal-Mart one day and the community came together to not just give the guy food or money, but we organized a job, some clothes, and a simple apartment for him. At first he was problematic because he was definitely on drugs but thankfully we were able to work past that and now he is a fantastic member of the community that is always trying to pay it forward.
That's awesome to hear! Drug addiction is hell and definitely ppl end up homeless because of it; or end up doing drugs is they lose income etc. Is your community a small town? I believe big cities are problematic for those surviving on the streets.
We are a small community near the coast of North Carolina. This was our first homeless person that was sitting somewhere with a sign about working for food. People weren't keen on just handing a guy money to sit in the road fearing that it would encourage others to do the same so we found out if he was legit homeless and then when we found out that he was we came together to help him out. This is one of the reasons why I really like my small community!
The problem with the big cities is likely that the problem got out of control a long time ago and now it simply isn't possible to fix it. We would prefer to avoid ever getting to that point.