In a world where "Everything Matters" you have to remember that homeless people backgrounds are as diverse as anyone's.
When homeless shelters are becoming open patios with homeless encampments around them, just keep in mind that many people were raised not knowing the rules and values of kitchens, bedrooms and regular homes.
Many "rust belt" towns like my home town have been vacated and then run down, people like homeless transients end up in them and become stranded in the middle of no where and can't get out.
Many, raised with no proper kitchen or bathroom and left to themselves outside too long never adapted to regular life as an adult at eighteen years of age.
Now these people cause a major burden on the welfare system because many homeless people have no or few skills at maintaining home routines, from bad parenting and probably never learned how to wash their dishes and clothes properly are now stranded outside.
The health care system has no time to tell these people how to spend their cheque to buy household items which causes a strain on the welfare system that some don't know how to spend their cheque on proper home maintainence, case workers can't help with this.
Always outside, no routine, no kitchen...never raised with a home budget, don't know how to put the store products into their home from bad parenting.
Many now homeless and now living downtown in tents, with no household skills or routines or skills to spend their cheque, remember their backgrounds are as diverse as anyones.
So you can't really tell how they got there but we all now it's issues like above.
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