Homeless itself is an insult to what is supposedly the richest country in the world. I had the shock of my life during the Great Recession when I found myself sitting on a park bench tying on a fishing lure. This pretty neat well dressed woman told me her and her husband both lost their jobs, the bank took their house and car so they were literally forced to live under the river bridge just downstream from where we sat. They could not find work. She told me about the conflicts between the bad egg homeless in what was apparently a camp and the people like her and her husband.

You know the one thing I don't get about people being forced to live outdoors. Every night in every major city there are thousands of square feet of space that goes unoccupied like churches, school gyms, etc. Sometimes those buildings are vacant in the day most of the week. We need to find a way as that as a temporary 
fix and get people out of the cold. The long term fix takes too long.