Some of the homeless here are just using the money to buy beer and cheap wine. Some of them are legite tough, and others seem to be 'trying too hard' to look homeless, and a few I think may be faking it. But, if someone looks sober and legite, then I would definatly give them some spare money. Few of them you get used to seeing, one guy has a bunch of birds, someone else stays near the freeway and plays his clarinet, many are 'disabled vetrans' as noted on their signs, some are families. But there are not many in our neightborhood as compared to others.