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Originally Posted by Dezzy
It's best to give the homeless food and drink if you're going to give them anything, better to put money towards supporting charities and accommodations for the homeless.
I do think stories like this are irresponsible though, sure, there's scammers out there but stories like this will also make it harder on people who are genuinely begging because they have nothing.
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Some of them that I've noticed since moving to London ask for money so they can pay for a hostel to sleep in (not sure if it's a london thing and to do with the number of shelters or if it's just because there's so many more homeless people here but I've found it to be a far more frequent thing here), so I think it's probably more helpful to give those ones money... obviously it's impossible to know if they're genuine though.