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Answerers are surprisingly unsympathetic. Read about some actual studies instead of making blanket claims based on your experience with allegedly lazy, drunk or drug addicted homeless people.Truth Talk: 74% of Homeless People Are NOT Drug Addicts - Invisible PeopleFact check: The three leading reasons for homelessness have nothing to do with character. They are as follows:Lack of affordable housingUnemploymentPovertyHomelessness Among the Elderly Expected to Triple in 10 Years - Invisible PeopleA new study out of UCSF showed that almost half of all elderly homeless people became homeless after age 50. These statistics tells us that whatever the problem is, it’s related to age.Homeless people may in fact have jobs, even full time work, but as in my community be simply unable to afford rent. I’m a nurse. My wife has three jobs. My daughter has two (while attending college full time). They work seven days a week. My wife and I have bachelor’s degrees. Hundreds of people in my community work in the service industry (making service wages) and sleep in their cars. You probably don’t know your coworkers or dozens of others you encounter during your day sleep in their cars or couch surf to survive.Living Wage Calculation for Kauai County, Hawaii - MITLiving Wage Calculator - MITNote: those listed expenses are ridiculously understated. You’re not going to rent a family apartment or house on my island for $18,132 a year ($1,511 a month), or pay only $6,215 a year ($517 a month) in family insurance or medical expenses. Try at least $2,300 a month rent. I’ve seen 18 family members living in a single family home, and that was 35 years ago with a lower cost of living. More recently during a home nursing visit, I’ve seen a house that housed 13. Beds were set up in the “living room”, and sheets hung outside on the porch to create rooms. If not for their supportive elders, they’d probably be homeless.Rental Listings in Kauai County HI - 18 Rentals | ZillowJust 18 Zillow rental listings, on an island with 75,000 people. (Just in my immediate area, the local government estimates a shortage of 8,000 rental units.) Meanwhile on Craigslist:Van rental & - $140Yes, a 1989 Ford Econoline renting for $140 a day.“Booked till January 24th.”“For sale as well $15,000″Can’t afford that?2007 Chevy uplander camper van - $510011 myths about homelessness in America - VoxThe National Low Income Housing Coalition found a full-time minimum wage worker would have to work between 69 and 174 hours a week, depending on the state, to pay for an "affordable" two-bedroom rental unit (the federal government defines affordable as 30 percent of a person's income). A full-time minimum wage worker couldn't afford a one- or two-bedroom apartment at Fair Market Rent, a standard set by the federal government, in any state.My wife and I have significantly higher than US average household income, but market rent is far beyond our ability to pay. If my parents and grandparents had not bought homes back when homes in Hawaii were in the $20k, my parents’ entire branch of our family tree would be either homeless, or unable to live in our home state. There are still over 25 years remaining on refinanced mortgages on the houses we live in, at modern values. My mother is on the hook until age 106, paying about as much as my entire take home salary.America's 10 most expensive states to live in 2019 - CNBCWorking Homeless Population Grows in Cities Across the U.S. - ParadeAxios consulted agencies, shelters and experts to get a better idea of how prevalent working homelessness actually is. Josh Leopold, a researcher at the Urban Institute, estimated that about 25 percent of the homeless population is employed, while Megan Hustings, director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, told Axios that between 40 and 60 percent of the homeless population floats in and out of full-time and part-time work.In Washington, D.C., a 2017 report by the Washington Council of Governments says that 22 percent of homeless single adults and 25 percent of adults in homeless families are employed. Arianna Fishman of New York’s Department of Homeless Services told Axios that around 70 percent of the city’s 60,000 people living in homeless shelters are families—and 34 percent of those families include a working adult.With Unemployment at Record Lows, Why is Homelessness Still on the Rise? - BRCOp-Ed: Two-thirds of L.A.’s homeless are trying to find work. Let’s help them - Los Angeles TimesAmong homeless young adults, nearly 60% are working or actively looking for a job. So are almost 50% of homeless parents with children and 40% of the newly homeless population. But as people spend time on the street this prospect dwindles. Only 20% of chronically homeless individuals are looking for work, according to research by the Economic Roundtable, a nonprofit research group I lead in Los Angeles.Note: “Chronically” homeless are not the same as transitional homeless, people who’ve “experienced” homelessness during the course of a year. As I have found in my reading (Vox), the most common interval of homelessness is just one or two days. Makes me question the definition of homelessness. My wife was homeless in Japan as a runaway by that measure. I’ve been homeless multiple times in Japan laying on the literal gravel roadside or in parks in the winter. In 2018, about 553,000 people experienced homelessness. “Only” about 88,000 are “chronically” homeless.State of Homelessness - National Alliance to End HomelessnessIf between 40–60% of homeless float in and out of full time or part time work, then obviously an even greater percentage are seeking work, i.e. also a majority, but unable to find or continue work, for reasons such as physical or mental issues. Or addiction.Eric Takabayashi's answer to Why can't we build homes for people who are homeless?