Tiny Homes for Homeless Vets

[Vern Humphrey]

true,

when I was in the grocery business, I had a few homeless wander around here and there at one store I ran,

one guy was happy living out of his backpack, he may have had some friends somewhere he stayed with sometimes, he was relatively clean,

he would bum enough on the street corner to get a 12pk and dinner, and then head off,


another walked a circuit each day, never begged, supposedly stayed in a gas station bathroom at night, wandered throughout the day,

he stank, no where to bath or wash correctly, but was never an issue
always had money
supposedly from a well to do family, had a trust fund set up, but he decided (possible mental illness) to just be homeless,

During the Clinton Administration, there was a woman found frozen to death sitting on a bus stop bench in front of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Henry Cisneros, Secretary of HUD, was beating his breast about it, about how we "failed" the homeless. Then came the denouement -- the woman had a wallet around her neck, with $400 in cash and a ticket for that night at a women's shelter. She also had family who were roaming the streets looking for her.

She had three choices -- rent a room, go to the shelter, or go home. She picked Choice D.

Some people refuse help.