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Now plenty of working poor and near-working poor are in the system as well. And often they have less desirable habits as apartment residents and neighbors as well.

As I was reading this, I kept thinking, they’re not just describing homeless people with all of the issues that they bring to the party, but public housing residents in general. When first built, lots of urban high-rise public housing projects were, in fact, pretty nice. After all, wealthy people in big cities live in high-rises. But the culture of the tenants is quite different. The wealthy tend not to foul their own nests so to speak by throwing trash in the hallways and urinating in the elevators.

I could never understand why poor people kept garbage in their living rooms, kitchen, bedrooms. I helped a group go into low income houses and brought food, bedding, other things and saw first hand how they lived.

A Pastor who was once a drug addict and homeless himself said that people grow up like that, trash all over in their homes, so when they become adults it’s normal living to them. It is only abnormal to us.