[Brett's Honey]

This was back in 1987-88 and things may have changed, but......back then it was so easy for a single homeless man to get food stamps in Colorado Springs with just a finding address (like a tent by a creek). They could then walk two blocks and sell them for fifty cents on the dollar to a woman whose father owned a restaurant. Then to the liquor store they went...... For food, there was homeless shelter meals, and while there, you could go to a shower room, throw down your dirty clothes, shower, and put on some donated clean ones. My Dad did that there for two years. He rode freight trains to his brothers in OKC and would come to visit every few months.
In OK, you're pretty much always had to be a single mother with kids deprived of support (or at least pretend you are) to get any assistance.

(End note - Dad died on a street in CO Springs from "heart failure" in 1988 at age 48. A very handsome intelligent man who let alcohol take over..the great thing was a nurse in CO Springs who knew she'd seen him before spent three days going through previous admission records, found his identity and called me before life support was taken off. Great person, that nurse.....)

Edited to say: Dad always did love the outdoors and wasn't dirty! He bitched a lot about the folks not keeping the shelters, showers, etc. clean and being more appreciative of them....had to add that after I read my post!
I know some homeless are not that way at all by choice, but I know that some are....