Why?

Many shelters have limits as to when you can stay there. Its not like you can just move in and stay there for a few weeks, months or years. Usually they're reserved for extreme weather conditions, or you go and sleep there but have to leave during the day. Shelters aren't always the safest places to hang out. Some people might feel they're better off just going it alone. Homeless is a tragic problem in our country that doesn't have to be if there wasn't so much wasted.

The sad reality is the government cares more about showing it's doing something about homelessness than actually building permanent solutions

Seems we agree more than we disagree ;) (at least on most things)

I think given the time to hear the other out people would find they relate more than they thought. 🤗

NO one 'chooses' the streets, ok maybe 1 out of 100.... but shelters are often full esp in winter, they also have strict rules which are hard for some to follow, there is also a lot of crime and theft in shelters.

I used to take the subway home from the stop under trumps building and one night there was an old woman with no shoes or socks sleeping on the bench...we bought her some shoes and socks.. meanwhile 50 ft or so over her head was a whole building full of people with more money than can spend in a lifetime... its sick... its unregulated capitalism

There is NO excuse for it in this nation, but there is a cause, too many very greedy people with too much money. This problem did not exist for the most part when the tax rate on the super wealthy was 70+%..... That is not a coincidence and you can thank Newt the Gingrich for it. .

A great many shelters are run by folks who have no compassion, and they don't mind treating people like numbers. Violence also plagues some of these outfits. A woman in our area was raped last year in a shelter.