Homeless shelters are often not safe or pleasant places. I don't have a definitive article or source to link to, but there are myriad accounts of theft, violen

Homeless shelters are often not safe or pleasant places. I don't have a definitive article or source to link to, but there are myriad accounts of theft, violence, and sexual violence at homeless shelters. If I was homeless I would almost certainly prefer to sleep in my car (if I still owned one) or couch-surf with friends/family if possible. Is this because the services don't really offer effective help for this group? What the transiently homeless want/need is are jobs that pay a living wage so that they can begin paying for their own housing once again. That is what really breaks the "cycle" of homelessness. It's difficult for anybody, much less a homeless shelter, to place people into those sorts of jobs.