Turns out it's a hell of a lot easier to commit time and effort to improving your situation if you're not spending all of your time and effort trying to figure out whether or not you'll be able to have food tomorrow. π
In some π¨π¦ small cities they did an experiment of putting homeless people in βtiny homesβ (converted shipping containers in a gated compound with central communal shower/kitchen units. They took only local, long term homeless singles or couples, around long enough to have a profile with community->