The public works department then hired a young, white, middle class individual at a high wage to walk the downtown streets with a handcart trash can. Starbucks later picked up on my idea and hired an established pressure-washer company to do their sidewalks every month. At the time it was opened, only about half of the rooms had been taken, and allegedly there was a secret list of local underclass people who would be spuriously eliminated from the application process. The IRS should eliminate their tax-subsidization of the project. There are several underclass or homeless people who are interested in homeless politics, but the homeless population is somewhat diverse and unorganized.
Problems arise when people try to lump'em all together.
A lot of them don't even know each other and have less in common with each other than homeowners or renters. When someone comes along and says he represents the homeless, it is usually a misrepresentation. Sometimes the non-homeless dupe an internet company into giving them free web space in the name of the homeless. Since I don't do drugs or alcohol, I have little or nothing in common with the ones who do. Like everyone else, I tend to avoid the people on the streets who act crazy or challenge me racially.