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I've noticed a big drop in panhandlers in cities, recently. Nobody even has cash any more. I wonder what they've been doing instead?
by empath75 9y ago
I've noticed a big drop in panhandlers in cities, recently. Nobody even has cash any more. I wonder what they've been doing instead?
- jedberg 9y agoI hope it's because services for them have picked up, funded by both public money and private (digital) donations. But I suspect the real answer is something closer to "starving and dying". :(
- acdanger 9y agoI'm aware of donations through apps like GoFundMe, but does there exist any services for making digital donations to homeless people I might encounter on the street? I've thought about how the lack of cash is affecting these people, quite a lot but haven't encountered any solutions.
- jpindar 9y agoGift cards? Coffee shops and such have low denomination ones.
- jedberg 9y agoThe problem with that is a lot of those stores will kick the homeless person out. We used to buy meals for homeless people on the street when we were getting fast food in college. Oftentimes they were afraid to come into the McDonalds with us, even though we were taking them in, because they had been kicked out in the past. There's no way they would have gone in to use a gift card.
- yardie 9y agoProbably been chased to other locations. A lot of municipalities have made pan handling a nuisance crime.
- mjevans 9y agoSadly this problem /can/ only be solved by coordinating funding at the national level. I'm still for localities experimenting with what the most effective use of those funds are, but when it's cheaper to ship the problem somewhere else that's what's going to happen. I would /prefer/ a focus on diagnosing and correcting lacking medical treatment (including mental health) and re-integration in to society as a real person.