G2:  Supporting the search for solutions for the many causes of homelessness is hardly treating it as an "abstraction."  I have always recognized homelessness as a nationwide wide...which, of course, it is.  I don't claim to "speak for" anyone. I do speak in support of America's "underclass".  There's a significant difference between speaking "for" someone and speaking in support of them.  

To my knowledge, I nor anyone else has suggested that panhandling is a solution for homelessness.  It's a "stop-gap" method for homeless, destitute individuals to survive.  So long as we are unwilling to devote the energy and resources to address those many causes of homelessness and poverty, there will be those hundreds of thousands of panhandlers in our communities.  

Your post is, unfortunately, again more focused on venting anger toward me than addressing the issue of possible solutions which might help those persons in need. That's really a shame........