what reasons what a person could have to decide be a homeless?

Answer 1

Mental illness.

Answer 2

NO ONE decides to be homeless! No child ever dreams of growing up to be homeless or mentally diseased or jobless or evicted...

The homeless? I've met some who were former college professors and one who was a former doctor and ophthalmologist and her partner robbed her of everything and she lost everything; professional men (and women) who've lost everything due to a stroke and have been evicted, or due to drugs and/or alcoholism, and even victims of domestic abuse, and now find themselves in public shelters or babbling to themselves, picking up cans and bottles just to be able to buy food to eat and living in hallways, under bridges, in the subway platforms, etc. In this day and age, in this the supposed most powerful and rich nation in the world...?

I've met some very bright but unfortunate people, and I've helped them get help from the available resources (manned by the most uncaring, lazy, rude, inept, incompetent and malfeasant bastards/b i t c h e s imaginable) and the idiotic obstacles and irrational, illogical paperwork required is almost laughable. NO ONE wants to be homeless, not even those with mental illness when they're lucid enough to communicate.

Public shelters? They're robbing the government blind! The employees steal and rob, verbally and sometimes physically and most sadistically abuse those they are assigned to help; that's why some homeless people prefer the dangers of the street than to come in from the cold and stay in shelters.

It is a total disgrace that war criminals and criminals/prisoners get better, more respectful treatment than our less fortunate members of our society! It is totally shameful!

A shelter director pays himself over $2,000 and he/she is rarely at the job site (yes, one of my ex-ladyfriends was the executive assistant at a woman's shelter, and I have known four social workers at different shelters that I coached with their Graduate studies).

ASK any public official what they're doing about this problem... they'll soon forget as they get into their luxury homes and/or their fancy-swanky offices, or they're attending some fancy-schmanzee engagement prancing around for cameras in their fancy wardrobes... or accepting favors from the super rich and powerful. They turn away and refuse to see these poor, unfortunate wretches!

Homelessness? You have no idea how easy it is for anyone to fall to that level of society! It is so easy to excuse it off by those ignorant fools that know nothing and say, "Oh, they enjoy being homeless, " or "They don't want to work," or "They are irresponsible..." Really? Do you think anyone enjoys sleeping in sub-zero temperatures where they can freeze to death over living in a comfortable home, or going hungry when they can't get enough from panhandling and exchanging bottles and cans for money?

Answer 3

Freedom,the excitement of the challenge,interacting with other street people and finding out what brought them there,camaraderie

Answer 4

Not wanting to deal with responsibility, or to experience the other side of the tracks for better understanding.

Answer 5

many, many reasons I'm sure. For no reason would I want to do that I like my home too much, and i would do just about anything to keep my home and I have.

Answer 6

sometimes they loose jobs or family and they are forced to that way or could be other issue they are fed up with the system they live

Answer 7

You should stop one on the street and ask them sometime. Post what they say.

Answer 8

Poverty, despair, insanity, and/or addiction