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The concept of homelessness is difficult to define. The homeless are generally thought of as persons with no permanent residence and seek security, rest, and protection from the elements. “The General Accounting Office (GAO) report used as its definition ‘those persons who lack resources and community ties necessary to provide for their own adequate shelter.’” However, these people tend to live in places that aren’t shelters: “In almost every major city, and in some small towns as well, men, women, and children are sleeping in public parks, bus and train stations, caves, rail yards, subways, alleyways, loading docks, and on rooftops and heating grates.” Daily contact with these homeless people raises troubling unanswerable questions about our moral obligations to strangers. Should we help them? Do they want us to help? It almost seems impossible unless you’re willing to house them or find them work, and of course large numbers of these people have been characterized by the instability and inability to find regular work. There are also others who have enjoyed steady employment and a normal life until their jobs were rendered obsolete. So there are different types of homeless people, they are not all in