We act like 7300 years is a lot in comparison to the 2 million years of human history , 250 , 000 years of Homo sapiens , 4 . 6 billion years of Earth ' s existence and 13 Billion years since the Big Bang <| sep |> i feel for youalsoi hope you lose <| sep |> Please correct me if I am wrong . I had heard that Salt Lake City has excellent programs to house the homeless and to get them into social services programs . My daughter , whose passion is community building , said I should not give to the pan handlers in SLC because that discouraged them from getting into the social services programs that would pull them out of homelessness . It was my understanding that years back SLC did a study and found that giving housing to the homeless was less expensive than paying for their emergency medical care . Does anyone know if this is true ? What you are doing is wonderful , but is there a place to plug your homeless friend into bigger programs that will give him more security ?