@Chronic-Yonic @GrumpyOldNurse @Cousin_Isobel They are different. The homeless these days. I mean, they are in the majority still addicts or/ and otherwise mentally ill like before, but the police can not touch them. Also, even if they do make a nuisance of themselves, there is nowhere to send them. They used to be forced into treatment if they were addicts and sent into mental hospitals if they were suffering from some mental disease, but there are no mental hospitals or treatment centres which have any available spaces for them even if they agreed to it, but now they actually have to consent. None ever do really. I wonder if some 30 years ago we just let them die in the streets or maybe we had fewer of them, or maybe they kept to specific areas that most ppl rarely were anywhere near, but there are so many of them in centers of even small towns...