This is pretty low even by Hacker News standards.<p>There are some highly intelligent people who are homeless, they have no ethical problems. They may have dependency issues, they might have a mental illness. In the US it&#x27;s even possible they got wiped out by medical bills and can&#x27;t afford anything, their credit is destroyed and they&#x27;re not physically able to work, yet that&#x27;s just the <i>visible</i> homeless, not all of the actually homeless people.<p>I&#x27;ve been technically homeless for six months. Even though I had money, I had a job, and I spent every day looking for listings, finding a place was crazy hard, every listing would be snapped up within hours of being posted. I ended up couch surfing and living out of my office.<p>It didn&#x27;t matter that I had a job, that I even owned the company, I was still homeless. It sucked. The place I was renting was sold, I had to move, and the timing was awful.<p>Long-term homeless people have a host of issues that keep them in that trap, but that&#x27;s a small portion of homeless people in general.