> This creates an incentive to become "homeless." Something tells me you've never had to deal with the homeless. If you did you would know you can't simply dec

> This creates an incentive to become "homeless." Something tells me you've never had to deal with the homeless. If you did you would know you can't simply declare yourself homeless. Here are all the ways a typical college dropout isn't homeless, when you show up to a shelter they'll ask these questions: Do you have family you can stay with? Do you have friends you can stay with? Do you have assets you can use to stay in a sublet or studio? Can a typical college studio say no to all of these? The counselors job at the homeless shelter is to get you into housing as fast as possible, hopefully within the same night, sometimes it can take a week. Any longer than that and you start to mentally break down. They'll go through your entire phonebook and family tree to find a place for you to live that isn't the shelter. > Public housing projects perpetuate poverty and crime and this will end no differently. Public housing are a victim of their own success. People need help to emerge from poverty, move into the projects, and once they have built up enough resources they buy a home, or rent privately, and move out. After a while only the most indigent are left in the projects. So only the very poor are left in these places, the marginally poor have moved up and out. Projects don't start out a shithole, they get that way through neglect.