Most effective way(s) to support homeless people?

[Cocorico]

Would be really interested to hear your thoughts/guidance on this please.

I live in London at the moment, and I see a lot of homeless people every day.

I'm sure that there are also a lot of homeless people in other towns and cities across the U.K., and that the number of people in this situation will either increase or decrease over time depending on various factors e.g. the amount of social security available to people who are struggling financially.

Anyway... my question is (AIBU to ask) how can we help homeless people most effectively?

Is it best to:
A) give money to people directly

B) to help in a more indirect way (for example, by donating to charities involved in helping homeless people or people in financial difficulty, volunteering for these charities, donating to food banks, helping out at food banks or any other way)

C) to do a combination of both A and B.

Thanks very much.

Lob em a 4-pack of Special Brew and stop being so patronising.

I hope ex-carer bloke has been ok these last 3 days.

The reality is a lot of people especially young people are homeless because they either have no family or their family life is so abusive they are safer on the streets. (Sad as this is).

Plenty of drug addicts have homes- either because they bought them before getting
Sick or because they have friends or family that bail them out and pay the rent for them.

Plenty of people are also sofa surfing- when their friends good will runs out- they are street homeless- really it shouldn’t get to that though. I think councils should step in before but they won’t.