Sorry for your troubles.
You are an outlier, most homeless are not particularly clean.
Yes. There are many homeless people with other problems like pot smoking, alcoholism and the like.
But several younger men had moved to the same city of opportunity (back then) and also kept clean, got on their feet and so on. During the same few months, a few men from a middle class suburb across the city drove by a few other homeless men and shot them in their sleep.
The most moral and helpful local people in the area, who helped us to get jobs and get going, were a community of people originally from Mexico. I’ve done labor with men from many corrupt and impoverished countries.
They were trying to support their families and help them escape from our bosses’ foreign plantations. A few years ago, those foreigners were only starting to realize that the U.S.A. is being transformed into the same kind of plantation by a few constituents in both political parties here.
I’m fed up with politics and contemporary political speech. I join likely millions of others in praying for a new world soon and all that comes before it to happen.