Your sources are broadly wrong.

Before I became homeless... I worked at a nonprofit, assisting the homeless.

Irony aside, no, a park wouldn't work at all, and most shelters actually don't let their 'residents' use it as an address, support or recieve mail for them.

Of those that do, they all nearly all have the barest of minimum effort put in to making sure residents receive their mail in a timely fashion, and its fairly common for them to lose your mail, bar you from obtaining it for arbitrary and petty reasons, if not just outright stealing it.

And spare me your 'you have options' speech.

I did the math, I ran the data, that was my job, I did it better than the government does it.

The PIT is bullshit, multiply that number by about 4, at least, to get an accurate count.

I distinctly remember my horror upon realizing that covid had utterly broken our seasonal trends, entirely. Just straight up needs being unmet.

Which leads into: The shelters were all completely full back in '22.

When cops go and clear a settlement and say they offered access to resources?

What that means is they gave people a phone number, to people who often don't have phones, a number that may or may not still be in service, where if you go through a 30 to 60 minute phone interview, you'll discover that "oh well we can't offer you any help at this time, have you tried this other number?"

... and that was all before Trump slashed roughly 80% of SNAP, Section 8, and grant funding to non-profits serving the homeless, before the Grants Pass decision functionally made being homeless a crime, before the tariffs, before CECOT, ICE invasions, and before ICE/FEMA began building 23 concentration camps, in line with Trump's stated policy, from before he got elected to round 2, to round of the homeless into concentration camps.

In summary, fuck off.

I have PTSD now, thaks for triggering it with yet more useless and wrong advice, you have bo idea how bad things are.

... and I couldn't get to ballot place if I wanted to, because I was crippled, couldn't get a ballot if I managed to get to a polling place, because my ids were all stolen, along with everything but the clothes on my back.

I had to bullshit my way from seedy motel to shelter to seedy motel for 2.5 years before I managed to get an actual, current, proper drivers liscense.

... and I'm the guy who used to design the data systems used to manage helping people do things like that, at scale.