They lie about it.

Yeah, I agree. In Japan, they tried shifting programs away from handouts and more toward education. A lot of Japanese people became homeless in the 1990's due to the Japanese real estate bubble. So maybe it's unfair to expect a program that worked for that entirely different culture to work here. In my town, we have a pretty serious homelessness problem, which is shocking, considering the winters here are absolutely brutal outdoors. But the problem is >99% perpetuated by the drug problem.

what excatly do they lie about Linda ? Who are the they you're referring too?

The Chinese government lie about the facts. They execute anyone that disagrees with them, they have issues with overpopulation so it stands to reason they would simply execute them - problem solved. They don't care about their subjects.

Very likely the handouts contribute to the problem. The resurgence of the modern KKK was partly due to Woodrow Wilson and his gang. It's easy to put a lot of blame on FDR, as he was certainly the leader at the time, but, if not for him, it would have been someone else. Socialism was really taking a strong hold over the US population in the 1930's. The way that socialism was implemented in the USA as a knee-jerk reaction to the Great Depression did a lot of permanent damage to our social structure. To dive a little deeper, there was actually a worse depression than the Great Depression prior to WWI, which is partly responsible for the beginnings of that journey. McCarthyism was too heavy-handed and still not nearly effective enough to get us away from that mindset, because it proposed no viable replacement, and that's still where we are now, this useless culture war between the "gimme-gimmes" and the "get-off-my-lawns," when, what we really need, is a well-thought-out replacement that allows personal liberties, which is the primary traditional American value, but also allows economic prosperity without too many vultures allowed to take advantage of the less discerning.

So what you were really asking is what should be done to help the homeless in America? I'd say better mental health care would help all of them! They are helped with that when they enter the shelters. Addictions are another issue. But I agree that they need a hand up and not a hand out. That's why I agree with the law against panhandling. Its not safe. Here when it gets really cold out they open the Boutwell Auditorium for the homeless to get out of the weather. And the Salvation Army gives out wool blankets. There are places here you can go as well but some people don't like to follow the rules. I have a friend I met in the VA nut house in Tuscaloosa. He said he'd rather live in the bush than go to a shelter. But he got beaten and robbed and his teeth knocked out. They don't allow fighting in the shelters. They kick you both out no matter what. So if someone jumps you, you better leave them something to remember you by because you're out too!!