LOLOL @ studies. national award winning PhD professional experts stated that statistically speaking, because of my past and current situation I had a 700% probability of being dead inside of 6 months, and the only reason why I would beat those odds is because I had a 25K% probability of going to prison first. That was May, 1985. The studies you read are seriously flawed as they are conducted in major metropolitan cities, and to compare NYC with Eugene is profound ignorance. The vast majority of our street people standing on street corners professionally begging are freeloading leeches, aka, vagabonds, vagrants, or traveler. Time and again we hear the question asked why Eugene has more than others. The answer is obvious, and especially when you have lived on the streets amongst them as I have. (to be continued)