Homelessness and street begging Reviews

I have always been sympatric to homeless people and always wonder what tragic turn in somebodys life can leave them living on the streets. They really fascinated me and for that reason I always have time for them and I used to give money quite generously. On one occasion I gave a really old Romanian women ten euros. She was ...

i feel so bad when I see homeless people begging in the street - what do I do? give eye-contact and smile but walk past and not give anything? (eye-contact's difficult though when you are depressed isn't it?) or do I give them something even though sometimes there's a dog(how can you feed an animal as well as yourself when you are homeless?)or ...

Homelessness, frankly, doesnt bear thinking about, and yet we have to address it and the social ills that lead to this unfortunate state of human decline. I am not a hard person by any stretch of the imagination, and I challenge anyone to not find the sight of a 'down and out' depressing and a sad indightment of our society. However, I dont ...

I think its well out of order that there is even one person that has to live on the streets! There should be something done about it.Either make more homeless shelters or do schemes where you get homeless people into work so they can afford to live because its getting so expensive to live these days. I dont believe people like living on ...

i feel sorry for some of the people who live on the streets. for some people it isnt their faults. for some people it is the last resort and they have nobody else. i would hate for anyone of my family to live on the streets as it just isnt fair. some people choose to live on the streets, as i have watched documentarys where people say that living ...

I'm a bit concerned about the number of people who are mentioning buskers in the same bracket as beggars. In Bournemouth we used to have a well known beggar who carried a small guitar with about 3 strings that he would strum to attract attention when people passed. He was not a musician he was a beggar. In London (and other ...

It used to be on odd quirk in my midlands town that many of the homeless people were Scottish people, the rest rarely speaking local ascents - hell; maybe your home town is not good enough for your local homeless people. These days' homeless people are ten fold from what they were in the 80s, no longer just the local tramp in the bus-stop. Alas, ...

I always give money to beggars and buskers. Sometimes just a few pence, sometimes ten pounds, or a pack of cigarettes or a cup of coffee. Whenever I do this, my friends always start laughing and saying that they'll just spend the money on drugs, or that they all have homes and loads of money anyway. What alot of people don't understand is how ...

One time people thought homeless and begging were issues caused by poverty in third world nations. Four in every thousand people in UK are homeless. There are more NGO's dealing with this issue than ever before but the problem is not reducing. lack of social housing, lack of resources offered by government, ...

I prefer to give some money to both beggars and organisations. Here in Melbourne, Australia, beggars these days tend to be more genuinely in need than in the past. Our government made begging against the law about 10 years ago when there was an explosion of it in the CBD but it still occurs. The government has slashed funding to ...

I know as with people from all walks of life there will always be some genuine beggars and homeless people and others who just give them a bad name . It is so easy to look at people who are struggling with life and it's hardships and think it will never be you . However a sad fact of life is beggars and homeless people can come from all walks of ...

For some reason this is something which in my town I seem to see less and less of, apart from the Big Issue sellers that are present it is not something that is very visible in the town or maybe it is just the fact that I'm not walking in the right areas or the local police and council are proactive in ensuring that the problem remains ...

Ok alot has been said over the last few days here about homelessness and begging, one point I am yet to see raised is the frightening thought that many of the homeless are actually former members of the armed forces. Now these are people who have had a job which is too care for our country but for whatever reason have since fallen on ...

Street Begging is disgusting, homelessness is very sad. Both should not be tolerated. Blair and Brown hand out grants to countries in Asia, Africa and South America despite these two issues affecting hundreds of Britons. I must admit some of these people have had trouble in the past and have lost all sense of self respect, ...

I wake up in the morning, in my super-comfortable bed, stretch, put my lovely, soft robe on, and stagger to the bathroom where I use my own clean toilet. I wash my hands with clean water, soap and dry them on a fresh clean towel. I stagger downstairs and go to the kitchen. I open my fridge, which is stocked full of fresh foods, and take out the ...

I would like to be able to tell the difference between a genuine person that has given up the burdon off responsibility and the chancers that take us for mugs, both sets of people begging in the street. Relying on the majority of us throwing them a couple of pounds without even taking the time to say hello to them. Forget the chancers for a ...

I can always remember the first time I saw a homeless person, he was an old bloke he used to sleep and sit in the same place for years and he was alright he would beg to buy food and nothing else, I never knew what happened to him................I have seen different types of homeless people, the ones who look like they have had some sort of ...

I have just driven through the town centre. Seeing couple of people lying in front of shops didn't look pretty. I blame new style of government for creating a new kind of citizen in this country. Citizen beggar was created by Tories when mental health care was virtually abolished in Major cuts. Drug addicts and mentally ill ...

Living rough or being homeless as it is known has become an almost ‘common’ thing, if you live in a busy town you will walk past homeless people quite a lot, if you live in a quieter area then it might not be a problem. The question that always hits me when walking past a ‘homeless’ person should you give them money? My personal answer ...

You walk past people everyday in the streets that you don't know from Adam, you don’t know their name, what they do for a living even if they have a home. Can you out your hand up and admit that you have refused to give money to a homeless person on the street? I know I can. It's not always because we are too busy, or to rude or that we *can't see ...