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Yeah. Maybe I'm having a stupid moment, but could someone ELI5 this to me? > most homeless shelters close during the day and have strict curfews that don’t all

• dpark 11y ago
  > Does this mean that they essentially drive everyone out during the day? Yes. Many (most?) homeless shelters are like this. Semi-permanent housing is less common, and it's very difficult to get into due to the limited number of beds. Most semi-permanent housing also has curfew, and might still interfere with night shift work.
• Naritai 11y ago
  The semi-permanent arrangements are usually a small number of apartments for which there are months-long waiting lists. It's considered to be like a halfway house, or a dry run for having an actual apartment, and the shelter frequently charges a nominal rent + utils, just to get the tenant into the habit of dealing with monthly bills. But this is a tiny fraction of the total quantity of shelter beds - most are mattresses that are laid out on a gymnasium floor at 8pm (first come first served, so yes the lines form much earlier), then collected and stacked at 7am the next morning when everyone is given a quick breakfast and turfed out onto the street.