Living in the Philippines, we see beggars and street people all over the place, and whatever a stranger can give them is only a drop in the bucket, but that stranger will be targetted from then on.

And there are the squatters, sorry, they're euphemistically called 'informal settlers' who live under bridges and anywhere there's available space, simply because the government has no policy of national emergency housing, except when a typhoon hits, as Typhoon Sendong (Washi internationally) did on the night of 16 Dec 2011 in Cagayan de Oro City.

Many of the survivors have been relocated to basic quality housing, which means they no longer have to sleep on riverbanks and under bridges, the worst possible places when typhoons hit.
But in Manila, it seems when new development is about to occur, then informal settlers have to go, so they're forcibly evicted and their shanties bulldozed. This in a supposedly Christian culture, but one where poverty is despised and the poor are mostly held in contempt.

"I pass them every day, on the streets of Melbourne."

Sorry, you lost me there... come with us to Cambodia and do a years Aid work

http://help-cambodia.blogspot.com/

if you want to pass the genuinely poor every day.

It is a rotten world in which we live and know little of, in this oasis of quiet and prosperity.
I say this coming from Facebook, where I've been treated to the sight of two lads, just kids, lynched in a civil war some where.