Nonsense. I was homeless exactly once for a few weeks in San Francisco. It took a loan from my sister (hey, lucky I had a sister with money to loan me!) to ge

Nonsense. I was homeless exactly once for a few weeks in San Francisco. It took a loan from my sister (hey, lucky I had a sister with money to loan me!) to get one of those rooms in a shared building where you aren't allowed to have guests and the kitchen cupboards have padlocks on them. You NEED an address to get anything more than one-off day work that you can't count on to pay the next months rent with. It's not optional. I did the one-off "go to a construction site, ask if they need help, get 20 bucks for cleaning the work site" thing and that's fine for EATING but that's about it. You can't send resumes out or get back to recruiters during that time, etc. It's enough to keep eating, that's about it. At that time the rent was like $380 for the room (this was in the Multimedia Gulch days...) so that's like 11 bucks a day for rent, don't miss a day. So, in one day of programming, I would make rent for the month and then some, but I needed to have a place with a computer to program. So today, you have laptops, but you still need electricity and internet. You need a stable place where you can plug your stuff in, keep it safe, and work.