So, you'd rather shoot the messenger than listen to the message.
I'm sure, based on that attitude, that you're out in the community in all of your free time, listening to the homeless, helping out with their struggles.
I've been quasi-homeless before, still had a car to sleep in as long as it didn't get towed or impounded but no actual home, etc.
There's a cycle where if you fall in it it's a real bitch to get out of. It's the one where you need a current id to rent an address or get a job but you need the address to get the id and you need the job to get the money to get the address to get the id to get the job to get the.....
Add on top of that most public services and programs and things are so full of red tape and just plain inconvenient or convoluted it can turn into a full day just chasing help, especially if you don't already have a car and are relying on bus routes and things, then you're busy doing that and unavailable to work, at least jobs that share the typical 8-5 hours the help places keep.
And that's just for folks who have their wits about them and are actively trying to get back above water. Throw in some mental problems or something and you got a real shit soup.
There's a church charity here that will keep mail for you and let you use their address as a physical address of record, so you can use that to get the current valid government issued id that causes a break in that cycle, so you can work your way out. They're on my Christmas list. I don't have rich guy level donations by any stretch but do peel them off some and always will. My "giving back" as it were. It's real actual effectual help for those that will take advantage of it and use that "hand up" to get back on the path (which is by no means all of them or even a majority sometimes but a physical address is a thing you absolutely can't do without to gain some level of independence and control over your own circumstances).
TrinityCenterAustin.org - Services and resources for the poor and homeless in inner-city Austin, TX serving spiritual, emotional, and physical needs
www.trinitycenteraustin.org
You learn quite a bit seeing that world from the inside so to speak. Can try to describe it to people as best you can but there's no way to really get it without experiencing it yourself.
A lot of folks visions of homelessness or the homeless community, regardless of politics, aren't real accurate when applied to how things work in the real world. Their ideas of causes, fixes, solutions, or who some of these people even are aren't either though there's plenty enough of all types of homeless, and causes of it, and solutions to it, to satisfy ones imagination or stereotypes whatever they may be.