Well, several years ago they started requiring a 25 cent deposit for shopping cart use so I imagine most of the homeless stopped using those and moved on to bikes, which require no deposit.

Around here we don't see hobo bikers so much but there has definitely been an increase in homeless dogsled teams. Used to be people would walk their pets on a leash and clean up after themselves but now there are many teams of dogs lounging around and being unattended by their owners. I don't believe they are real dog sledders either, as in the Jack London sense of the word. These people wear polyester parkas and their mukluks haven't been polished it seems in years.

Distasteful, but that seems to be the way society is leaning these days...