Sorry mileslong, nothing even close to a $5000 bicycle in my stable of 4 used bicycles. From my experience working with public safety in the past a lot of these folks need heavy long term monitoring. I'd be OK with some transitional housing (6-9 months?) and other services for those who are just 'down-on-their-luck' so they could find jobs, get a place of their own, and get back on their feet, but (besides the druggies ClydeTim mentions)most of what's out there need mental services or heavy monitoring; the ex-cons definitely need probation officers, or at least social services, watching over them. Nothing elitist about it, it just seems to me to be more of a public safety problem than a social services problem. And my experience was about five years ago; the overall problem has gotten far worse since those days.