Hiya, I am not a homeless, or ex-homeless person, but I worked for years as a volunteer for a soup kitchen, and also at a church as an assistant.

There once was a story from a book called Sherlock holmes where Sherlock was hired by a wealthy woman to go and find her husband's killer, because she saw him walk into their house, and then an hour later a homeless man with a knife came out of the house. She then had that homeless man arrested. But her dear husband was no were to be found.

Sherlock Holmes with no idea where to find him, went to the jailed beggar, (The suspect who was arrested) he walked in and the beggar was asked. "Do you know why you are here." The homeless man smiled with perfect white teeth. "Nope." Sherlock realized then and there that this was the woman's missing husband. After talking with him for an hour, the beggar man told him that his job was unfufilling and that one day he went out pulled some terrible clothing out and went into the street, in one day as a beggar he pulled more money than he ever did as a normal working man. And explained he was going to 'work' the day he left the house before he was arrested.

My dad told me that story, after I came back after meeting a con artist that was posing as a homeless woman.

Now whats the point of that story?

Some people choose to become homeless, some like the man in the story are con artists, some aren't. Some are truly disturbed individuals. Its seriously hard to tell whether someone is homeless. I can't tell you how many times I've been approached for money.

If you want to help homeless people, you need to fix the following:

Mental Health institutes, Psychological Hospitals, Recovery Areas, Homeless Shelters, and Arresting Con Artists,

I know lots of people who didn't own a house, and wore expensive clothing, a man I knew who came to soup kitchens I organized wore a fabulous white suit and was more wealthy than anyone in the room, and was homeless, he was a millionaire. He just didn't want to own a house, he saw as a waste, was he messed up in the head? Maybe, but when I talked to him, he just didn't like houses, he thought they were too expensive.

Yeah its ancedotal, but this is something about the homeless, we ourselves cannot do it until there is a massive move to restructure the way we help the homeless, it is a huge problem in lots of areas, also it is because there are so many homeless in my hometown its kind of baffling, we need to fix a lot of things before we can truly help the homeless, and that being mental health, and the stigma behind going in to see a doctor about your mental health.

Not everyone can be saved from being homeless sadly. Its something that we as humans need to become familiar with.