Unless you think the homeless can look like very nearly anyone else, you’re dead wrong about your assumptions of what the homeless can look like.
Most homeless are socially invisible. That’s the problem. They live out of cars and public bathrooms and get quite good at it. Think about it. People can live in a forest and come to look pretty awesome and kempt. Forests don’t have bathrooms with running water on every block.
You can even have a job, maybe even feed a car, and be homeless. This is part of why it,s so atrocious that so many government programs don’t allow you to have substantial a real bank balance while getting aid. Because you can have 10,000$ and still need a food card, why? Because that 10K is your buy a house because you can’t afford rent, move to find a better job, fund. Sidenote: this is another disruptive aspect of bitcoin. All you need is a good memory to save money completely off the books.
Its actually illegal to use the food card in such a way as to save money to springboard you past the poverty gap, I know this for a personal fact.
And girls (assuming they can stand the radical down sides) in particular can couch surf, even if they aren’t pressured into favors the hope is there, and they are less threatening. I’ve known several homeless people and trust me you can not spot them in a lineup. All it takes is practice, and that’s sadly the one thing all homeless people get.
The kind of homeless person you can typically spot, the rag man you generally think of when you hear the word homeless and you grew up on a steady diet of TV, is one who is too weak/sick to make the effort and has for some reason hit a catch 22 point where they appear so badly they can’t get easy access to the things they need to improve their appearance. Also many of that stripe are mentally ill and cannot or will not take care of themselves and actually need someone to take care of them which is usually why they are on the street in the first place, because the money ran out or there was no one left.
Homelessness is about as easy to spot visually as degreelessness. They cost about the same.
