The richness of that wall color does not quite say decay... But the hat says it all. Great contrast of feelings.

High marks for all but relevance from me, but I am from San Francisco where we do tread lightly and homelessness is hardly something we would equate to urban decay. I think this speaks volumes and is a great capture and only wish I'd seen it on your blog which I will surely add to my RSS.

Wow, what a potent gesture...and the hat, great. I'm sure you will get plenty of suggestions for cropping and other technical nitpicking, but I'll restrain my comments here. I like this photo very much.

I think some details of this picture look too neat to fit the urban decay theme.

Interesting...I'm not sure I get how it fits to this theme, but I'm using my imagination and you may have something here... The nicely kept trash can kinda says the opposite tho.

I love this picture! The person and hat make such a powerful statement. I do not like the water part at all though and think it really pulls the viewer's eye from the true subject. I have tried to see a different crop but not sure it is possible with this perspective.