M2, I'd like to agree with some of your points, even support them, but I only get the 'like' option, which doesn't apply. This is why:

Someone has to pay for everything you've suggested. The street drunks & druggies won't. They won't pick up after themselves. The camps I've seen in the woods are only frequented by the homeless that are squatting there, yet are surrounded by filth, excrement, used needles, trash, moldering piles of clothing, mounds of empty liquor bottles/cans. How hard is it to dig a pit latrine, or get a garbage can? Even to pack out trash to a neighborhood dumpster is beyond these folks. The more you give, the more they take, the more it costs, the less people who Work and pay Taxes want to 'help'. The showers and 'potties would be vandalized in days.
You can't force them to contribute or hold them responsible


All truth here,  all within the rules. Read my comments further down. Trolls keep taking them down, but I won't stop posting, as Civil Comments is broken.