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I'm going to say its not a choice. I don't believe anyone wants to homeless, i don't think people choose that life. People go through things. Some lose their jobs, some lose their homes, couldn't keep up with rent and etc., and their left out on the streets. Living in NYC, and working in a public city building, i notice alot of people who seem mentally unstable. My guess is family or their care taker kicked them out. So for them, its not a choice.
In the building i worked, we have homeless people come in alot especially when it gets cold out. We can't kick them out, unless the complaints from the public starts to get loud. When they do get kicked out, or escorted out, the security officers, give them an address of where they can go take a fresh shower. Many many times, they come back the same way the were escorted out. I also remember one time, my friend offered one of the homeless men in the building a jacket, and some boots because it was the cold of winter, and all he had were these rippped jeans, and a t-shirt that wasn't in good shape. He didn't want any of it. If he rejected all those kind of help, then to me homeless is his choice.
At the same time though, some of them, have been homeless so long, that they just accept it.
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