Quote from: K-Dog on Dec 18, 2023, 08:21 AMDissent and you can sleep in a car.

If only that were true!  Unfortunately, in most places sleeping in your car is illegal.  The issue here is that there are NO free places to sleep legally in cities besides the perpetually too few "shelters" which rarely offer a safe storage place for personal possessions.  So you ALWAYS have to have enough money to have a place to live.  Given that half the population lives paycheck to paycheck, it's guaranteed you will always have a percentage of people who are out of work, followed swiftly by out of money, followed then by out on the street.

It used to be every city had ghettos/slums/favelas where you could find a dilapidated building to squat on.  In cities like NY though, even slums are rented out by somebody, like Trump's dad. The Big Apple has a massive shelter system, however even that is overwhelmed by the fact refugees flock there because of that system.  So that also is overwhelmed.

The reality is even with the anti-vagrancy laws on the books, there's no way you could imprison all the people in need of housing either.  So cities give out bus tickets to another town.  At least you get to sleep on the bus.

RE