It would probably illuminate the situation to realise that no-one I know personally is "1 bad month away from being homeless". I don't think that this is unusu

It would probably illuminate the situation to realise that no-one I know personally is "1 bad month away from being homeless". I don't think that this is unusual. Staving off the obvious retort - I don't have some sort of silver spoon upbringing, my parents and childhood peers are supermarket workers, bus drivers etc. People I know and socialise with just spend within their means, live in places that aren't hilariously expensive, have an emergency fund etc. They plan their lives around being able to provide for themselves and not burdening others. Very few people I know could afford to live a normal life somewhere like SF. I don't think that homeless people are subhuman as some people here mention, that's clearly a strawman. But I don't consider them to be my peers either. Their life choices, both past and present, are completely baffling to me.