The author of this article gets it wrong too. You can pick apart all these disparate situations homeless people face, but people are more than willing to help people that are facing devastating medical bills, or sudden unemployment or whatever; those are easy to remedy. When people think of the homelessness epidemic they think of people wandering the streets out of their minds on meth shitting on sidewalks, because that’s the actual problem. If the rate of homelessness was the same, but none of them were visibly insane/drug-addled, it wouldn’t bother people and the solutions would be easy. As it is, living in a west coast city, I have to worry about my kids walking by tent cities every day populated by wild eyed junkies; that’s the issue.

Move to a less costly area. Stop smoking cigarettes. Lose the dog. No more alcohol. Get a job, many places are hiring. Don’t have better shoes or cell phone than me. Accept food from strangers, else they might think you are full of shit.