No. I'm saying I don't mind seeing elephants as long as they're not trying to step on me.
Aren't you talking about the elephants you encounter when you visit their locale?
Tourists are a mixed bag. People who live in 'spring break' destinations will be happy to tell you stories about tourists who cause essentially the same types of damage as homeless people.
Tourists do generate revenue and some people benefit immensely and directly, but tourists also create local price inflation. Not everyone benefits.
Not sure what the right answer is, but if the policies in your community helped create homelessness, and you don't provide services like drug treatment and mental health coverage, you shouldn't dump problems on someone else or on an empty area. Homeless people cannot survive away from a community.
You have talked about ways to have business people support the homeless. But really, the entire community is part of the problem.
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