The decision as to what to do with these "free" souls needs to be addressed by the leaders of our city. Places like the Mission are all to full. Affordable housing means they would have to work and pay for that housing.  Many of these folks are highly ADDICTED to drugs and booze. Any the money they receive, via panhandling,  goes directly to their habits. Being addicted to this extent causes mental disorders to the point of  incompetence. I know the struggle. I worked in the trenches within "free" clinics  available to the homelessness (most of  them hardcore addicts) evaluating and treating their health issues and referred them to the proper mental health professionals. The homeless addicts here in Eugene need and deserve proper assessment and long term treatment within a caring and safe environment. To base their demise on lack of affordable housing and leave them roaming the streets and continue as is, is beyond reason and brinks on that of human disregard.