Well, you could google it and find out. Searching for "homeless people want to be homeless" gave me a bunch of good articles. NPR had people who were or had b

Well, you could google it and find out. Searching for "homeless people want to be homeless" gave me a bunch of good articles. NPR had people who were or had been homeless call in and say why they preferred the streets over shelters [1]. The summary is: - many shelters are crowded, noisy, and unsafe - some shelters make you stand in line at 4:30pm, which makes getting a job difficult, since many require you to stay past that time. - you have an undiagnosed mental illness - you are a military veteran with PTSD and enclosed spaces make you fearful - you need a dog for protection and many shelters don't take animals - some people feel judged at religious shelters - many shelters require you to not be drunk or high, but many homeless are addicts. I helped out a place that housed people just out of prison (private room plus meals for $50/month) plus food pantry and clothes, and the woman who ran it said that a lot of the homeless men that they interacted with were homeless because they were running away from their responsibilities. So those people would not want to go to a shelter because people would tell them what to do, and the whole point of being homeless was to get out of people/life telling you what to do. [1] https://www.npr.org/2012/12/06/166666265/why-some-homeless-choose-the-streets-over-shelters https://www.npr.org/2012/12/06/166666265/why-some-homeless-c...