at my school we try and help the homeless/hungry during the winter and spring.  we will all buy supplies for sandwhiches make them and then travel downtown.  we then patrol, hence why its called "sandwhich patrol", the streets looking for hungry and we give them sandwhiches.  that is my efforts to help the homeless/hungry in one way or another

You may say I am cold hearted, but I can't really do anything about it.

It's a society problem, I'd have to change the ways of how society function to do anything about it. I can't see myself as a politician.

This, and I volunteer in a soup kitchen at churches sometimes.

i will never forget, walking back to the tube from london, after having a meal out in pizza hut (exotic i know) after celebrating my work experience, we had 3 slices left, and my dad didnt want to carry them (after getting about half way:P) we saw a homeless man, and my dad offered them to him. he was actually REALLY rude, he thought we had even tampered with it, or similar.. but he took it anyway. no thank you. nothing


the homeless are going to stay homeless for a while. theres a housing shortage. people like young mums with babies get preference, every man and his dog, will get preference over a homeless man getting a home.
this is why people squat in houses, which is illegal and causes issues

--i care about homeless people who are grateful for what they get, because they probably didnt deserve it/how they ended up there, like the people who ran away from abuse.
--people like the man in my 1st paragraph, i dont, because even when offered help, they are highly ungrateful and rude.

society could do more... more food...more blankets when they sleep under bridges etc. they could give them a home, if the government owned any more houses to use. we could get rid of the abandoned shops, houses, buildings and renovate into, temp housing...but ofc, everything comes to money.

they cannot be provided with money without bank account, they cannot be provided money without a purpose, most of them when they beg for money spend on a bit of food then alcohol from what i have seen. and the government is so stingy, they have cut off benefits/money to help with cancer patients (NO I AM NOT JOKING), people with disabilities etc, all because they dont fit the right criteria. i would hold no breath for them to give money to a homeless person. they get free nhs healthcare anyway so thats not a problem for them also..

When I used to walk up one of the busiest streets in Edinburgh to get to work, I always used to pass many homeless people.

They all seemed to be junkies or somebody that has entered the country illegally. I rarely express sympathy to any, cause usually I believe that made a decision to become homeless. I don't see how most junkies can become homeless apart from not being able to pay bills and such, they only gather money for their next fix. As for the ones who entered the country illegally, I can understand they left for a better living, but I don't show sympathy to them as the problem with country is the foreigners who come in and take most of the countries jobs.

Although, if I have a spare quid in my pocket, I usually give it away to them. The homeless people with dogs I always seemed to get suckered into (used to have a dog myself). Although what I usually do is buy them some dog food or snacks then give the homeless guy a sandwich so they can both eat.