Homeless people Portland Oregon

I came across the site on flickr of homeless people in Portland Oregon. The women all have carts pushing all this stuff around with them. One has a cat and I saw some people who had dogs. Click on the title if you want to see human misery.
We don't have things like this in our area and I am glad.
No doubt many of these people are mental ill and drugs and alcohol plays a part in their lives.
Do all large cities have this problem?




Yahoo! Buzz Digg Newsvine Reddit FacebookWhat's this?By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY
The U.S. had 12% fewer homeless last year than in 2005, and the greatest decline occurred among those who chronically live on the streets or in emergency shelters, according to a federal report to be released Tuesday.
"This is a success story," says Dennis Culhane, a University of Pennsylvania professor and co-author of the report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He attributes the decline to better tracking and to increased efforts to house the "chronically homeless" — disabled adults who are continuously homeless for at least a year.

The number of people on the street or in emergency shelters on a single night in January, the month in which the tally was taken, fell from 763,010 in 2005 to 671,888 last year, the report says. Most were homeless temporarily. Among those who were chronically homeless, the number fell from 175,914 in 2005 to 123,833 in 2007.

Who are you kidding they died that is why the numbers are smaller!