Your comments are wise.
Also, it is helpful NOT to lump all homeless together, family and individual. Also, chronic and singular.
What I specifically object to are the single homeless folks that lie about our downtown streets and that befoul in large numbers our main library.
I don't know how to go about reducing their numbers, to returning to a more livable downtown, but it hasn't always been like that. And it isn't so in Bend, Corvallis, Salem, or Portland. Eugene is the only one that has a large part of its most trafficked area flooded with these, for want of a better term, bums.