I've never been homeless the most i cab manage is "Intentionally homeless" i can't even fit that box
I've moved around a lot, it takes a while for my notes to catch up, during which i'm not officially mentaly ill or sometimes i've made a bit of a recovery and don't count.
It's what in America they call "falling through the gap" where your neither fit for work or officially entitled to the welfare, they're be more off it now everyones copying America
You can easily become trapped in homeless charity, my last salvation army area was full of homeless people, everyone was complaining about harrassment and everyone was accused of harrassment, the housing assoc couldn't tackle it, they couldn't evict everyone
The mentally ill ex cons would refuse meds and terorise the area, they were finding that prison methods of survival were relevant to the estate, these methods worked well in the community were there was a burden of proof, requirement, before the authoritys could take action