I think you're choosing to avoid responding to the rest of OregonBorn's valid comments and concerns by just focusing on the validity of the "30 times" number.  I have to think that any number is going to be a "guesstimate" at best. What if it's only ten times, five times, or even just the same?  So what??  It doesn't detract at all from what OregonBorn and a number of other people feel who live in and are part of this community. Nor does it mean that they don't care about the homeless and mentally ill, and are doing their best to help them.  You don't know.  You're bad mouthing of the "middle class" or whomever because this serious, multifaceted world wide issue has not been resolved locally does nothing to help the plight of the homeless and mentally ill.  It may even make matters worse, by turning-off people who otherwise might get involved but don't want to get into a shouting match with someone like yourself who says they are not doing enough.