Ms Harrison, Please share with me and others the factual basis for all your assertions about the poor traumatized unfortunates who have plagued our city.  Admittedly, my assertions are anecdotal.  For example, I have to deal with the begging and panhandling. I hope not to strike a drunk with my vehicle who suddenly staggers on to the road.  I am forced to look at squatter camps on public property. I get to step in human excrement. I must smell the odor of human waste and garbage in public parkland. Others and I refrain from public places because of the danger. Fundamentally, my enjoyment of our society is constrained because of the traumatized unfortunates you defend. Contrary to your assertion I do know what I am talking about. I see and smell it every day!  Yes, it is a societal problem, but the present situation is unacceptable and this mayor is doing nothing to make it better.  Nowhere in this country has acquiesce of people living like this solved the problem.