A lone .
person is that who has no connection to anybody and never travels, but stays in the same general area. A .
transient is a person who never settles down for more than a few weeks, but keeps moving throughout cities .
by means of walking and hitch hiking. Within these categories are sub-categories. These sub categories are .
taken from a random group of 1,000 homeless people, and what their numbers would be.
CATEGORY PEOPLE .
Families 220.
Lone Individuals 780.
Under 19 146.
Women 229.
Elderly Men 17.
Veterans Men 188.
Mentally Disabled Men 125.
Disabled Men 28.
Full Time Jobs 7.
Part Time Jobs 27.
Sporadic 78.
Effort 173.
Bum (Undeserving Homeless) 49.
Even the people with full time jobs are in need of permanent residence. These people live on .
eating scraps of food from trash cans, and possible meals from shelters on occasion, but those are usually .
three times a week at dinner, or some other type of schedule. People who have homes rarely think, nor can .
comprehend what terrible things that the homeless have to go through. They live in abandoned buildings, .
cars, buses, boxes, on park benches and underground. They eat bits of old fruit and meat with the mold and .
green sludge scrapped off. One man and his son used up their $60 of food stamps that they were giver for .
two months. For a week they lived on ketchup and mustard. Within three days of the condiments .
disappearing the boy had both his feet amputated due to frostbite. This was in New York. .
There are some people who still have a spark of interest in finding jobs. They look for places to .
work, and they try to establish an address and connections. If a homeless person is absolutely dedicated to .
ending his own homelessness, he will most likely find his way out. .
The one category that people assume all homeless fall into is the undeserving homeless, or .
"bums". These are usually men in their 40s or 50s who sit around all day and do nothing. They don't try and .
help themselves or others.
