I had to rep cause I was homeless too living in NYC in 2015 where I was homeless for 8 months and sleeping in my car. It was an eye opening experience...forced me to get back on my Ps and Qs to make sure it never happened again.
And you're right a lot of homeless people are just caught up in bad situations couldn't it make ends meet so they're out on the street the rent didn't got paid so now they're out they're out in shade...lost jobs, broken families, a lack of opportunity...inability to afford affordable housing...its not as simple as people to think...especially how most see the homeless as either mentally ill or addicted to drugs (which is a cop out....people don't want to scratch beneath the surface for real answers).
Hell, yall know my story when I meant passport gang, it came with losses in the process (job security, family, hotel room stays, pb and j, ramen, etc). I met folks in the shelter that had stories for days. One dude was a big time drug dealer and had all the money you could imagine but he ended up in the shelter because their was a price on his head.
The lady that passed, her husband used to beat the everlasting hell out of her to the point where she had health issues.
Another lady who damn near held us down had MS, but was a successful writer whose family robbed her blind, so she ended up there.
shyt, the last "family" that came through our dorm, the dude punched the mother and ran from the shelter because he was on parole.
The fukked up thing about that place is that it was full of fukkery from one of the staff members fukking the homeless ladies, some dude had covid and they basically left his ass in a dorm all by himself with no food or care until the EMTs came through. Right now, the shyt became a hellhole with folks stealing shyt like the lady with MS had her information stolen and the cops had to help her.
This is life breh....
Sad to say it, but one thing is for sure, I be goddamned to ever go back to that shyt. Right now, its a slow path to the right direction but there's nothing but up at this point for you and I.