Having been homeless, the reason you see people sleeping rough and not in shelters is out of choice. Firstly, there are lots of restrictions for entering shelt

Having been homeless, the reason you see people sleeping rough and not in shelters is out of choice. Firstly, there are lots of restrictions for entering shelters (many won't allow you to stay without ID), and then there are enormous amounts of rules for staying there which makes it akin to prison for the residents (most of whom are fresh out of the joint). The other issue is that if you are recovering from an addiction, then shelters are awful. Literally every person there is trying to sell you some kind of substance, and when they're not doing that they are trying to figure out some other form of crime that you can help them with to get money for their addictions. Homeless people just often want to be left to their own devices, so I can see these tiny homes helping there.