E.S.:  Your post seems to imply that ALL those pandhandlers are scammers.  Certainly, as I have repeatedly acknowledge, some of them are.  However, may I suggest that many of them use the money they get to survive another day.  The mentally ill, the developmentally disabled, the vets with PTSD, the alcoholics, the drug addicted, etc all are, to use your phrase, "people who are genuinely in need of assistance" and, yes, many of those very people are out there on the streetcorners.  

Please provide me with a list w/addresses of the service providers who will immediately provide appropriate support  for these needy folks.....rehab. centers, assisted care facilities, residential treatment programs, etc. and, instead of giving them a buck, I'll give them a ride and help them register for that support.  

I'd rather give a buck so someone who"didn't" need it, than refuse to help someone who did need it.  If that makes me a sucker, so be it.......regards, Gary