Currently, there are over 500,000 homeless people living in shelters or outside or with someone else. The HUD classifies homeless as [direct quote]. In larger cities such as [city], homeless are [x%] of the city. In suburbia, homeless generally congregate around strip malls and shopping centers, begging on the median parallel to busy roads. [mention of a source]. Some homeless people can be violent and most people and businesses consider to be unsightly. Cities such as New York have taken an initiative to [plan]. Stuff like spikes and benches that can’t be occupied by homeless on have been used to deter homeless people from an area, with little else to offer in helping their situation, only putting the problem onto some other area of the city. Concerns about panhandling have also led to legislation to ban it such as in[city] due to politics. Many shops also can 't donate to homeless because of food poisoning risks. …show more content…
While there are various charity services and food banks, homeless are often seen as a lost cause and a problem no one wants to fix or deal with, whether it 's too costly or considered ‘not their