In my small city for decades there were maybe two homeless people in their 50s or 60s who would ask for change they were alcoholics everyone knew them in my sma

In my small city for decades there were maybe two homeless people in their 50s or 60s who would ask for change they were alcoholics everyone knew them in my small city. Eventually they either died or got help. Now within the last five years there has been a massive increase in street beggars all in their 20s. They get a milk crate and sit on it all day at a busy corner with a cardboard sign "need food". There is a group of three who come here every year from somewhere? Two guys and a girl who go to the median at street intersections and put up a sign walk down the line of cars looking for money. When fall came they would all leave but now it's a year round thing every day even in the winter. I talked to a few of them one guy in particular was (?) a bit older my age, mid 40s, he said he had a bad back, a catheter, his guitar was smashed so he was asking for more money for that I think someone gave him one. Then he was on the news a few times and it seems he was fairly well-known guitar player. I'm not sure where he went but I know many people tried to help, I said I knew of some jobs, but it seems he disappeared when the police wanted him due to a warrant or something like that. Local news http://goo.gl/eBXSv6 http://goo.gl/eBXSv6 His bio on CBC http://goo.gl/OxF9eu http://goo.gl/OxF9eu This is all rather shocking for this small town it has been so sudden, and it's new faces from away not locals. It seems word is out that people are generous here and they are you often see people giving money. I agree it seems to be 99% Millennials it's as if someone flipped a switch five years ago and suddenly homeless people at every second corner asking for money.