Mental health issues is almost certainly what has landed many of them there, but the thing that people love to do is shit on the homeless while never acknowledging that they could be in that position themselves someday. Mental illness isn’t assigned at birth. There are a vast amount of reasons you could start suffering with a diagnosable mental illness, and for most people poverty has a lot to do with that. People who fail to understand how people become homeless, while also having no sympathy for them, are the kind of people like those in florida right now advocating for the homeless to be sent to an island. Essentially a concentration camp for the homeless