[familyop]

"Hygiene among homeless is lacking,..."

I've been homeless in the field (combat engineer) and homeless once after moving to another state from a very corrupt locale. I kept clean every day, worked hard, stayed sober, etc. Didn't get much sleep or much to eat, though.

[Ray76]

Sorry for your troubles.

You are an outlier, most homeless are not particularly clean.

[Age of Reason]

I believe there are many homeless people who actually have jobs, but despite working as much as they can, still cannot afford a real place to live.

And I do not doubt that there are professional people—people who did everything right: got degrees, got jobs, then lost their jobs because a company laid them off or because they were replaced by machines, and could not find another one in time to prevent being evicted on to the street.