Yes because the shelter is disproportionately (vs on any random street) full of mentally ill, illness (hepatitis, TB, you name it), parasites (bed bugs. etc), a

Yes because the shelter is disproportionately (vs on any random street) full of mentally ill, illness (hepatitis, TB, you name it), parasites (bed bugs. etc), and unreasonable rules. I used to do day labor while homeless in places like North Dakota during the oil boom; homelessness sleeping in a ditch under a tarp is 1000x better than listening to someone tell me I can't have a beer with my snack before sleeping or droning on about jesus. For a person of sane mind without drug addiction setting up your own shelter (tent, whatever) is trivially easy to do and vastly superior to organized shelter. It doesn't take much ingenuity to find a secluded spot no one will find; for instance even in crowded in chicago I'd just climb onto an abandoned building and sleep on the roof.