Did you read the author’s page? It doesn’t sound at all as though she is a “boutique homeless trust-fundie slumming for a week.” She says she had a middle-class upbringing. She says she is married. She had her children in wedlock. She is working very hard and is studying to get herself out of her economic bracket.
Is this woman a scammer? I don’t know. If you read more of her writings and read between the lines, it sounds as though she might have some mental health problems.
I don’t understand the vitriol. Sometimes even decent, hard-working middle-income people who make good decisions—like me, like my friends who shovel horse manure for a living—fall on hard times. Despite integrity, despite determination, despite prayer, initiative, and making choices informed by consultation and reading. Sometimes bad stuff happens and it takes years to work yourself out of it.
What vitriol? You clearly have forgotten how supportive I’ve been to the many FReepers who have fallen on hard times, including yourself if memory serves? Anger at people who write implausibly about their experience with play-homelessness is fairly commonplace, among people who have experienced it for real.