Is homelessness always bad? Or unwanted?

Interesting discussion that you started. I guess homelessness is bad when a person does not want to be homeless but is due to circumstances beyond his or her control. He or she can not afford to rent housing. But you presented another situation. For instance what about persons who choose to spend a lot of their time traveling and their transportation becomes a home. Those persons may have chosen not to stay in one location. They do not have a permanent structure in one spot which they call home. Those persons are not really homeless. They have some money to travel and if they wanted to, they could probably afford to rent a place to live year round. I know some persons who live in their RV's. They travel all over the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central and Latin America. They have good lives and are having a wonderful time. They are not poor and can afford whatever they need or want. I do not think that they see themselves as homeless nor do I think society would see them as homeless. I do not know if law enforcement or society would be hostile to them because they tend to have money. Owning and running a RV costs. It is not cheap. And those persons have their own subculture. Adventurous persons on a bike are probably young. They might run into difficulty depending on their appearance, personality and demeanor. Some might have money while others not so. How they are viewed by law enforcement and society is going to depend on a lot of factors such as how much money they do have, where they go and how they present themselves. A lot of how a person is viewed and treated is up to how the individual presents himself / herself.

There is a big difference between living in your car and living in a trailer or camper like the Tinkers and Gypsies do and also some retired folk or people who travel around to where the work is. My sister-in-law, the one who travels a lot, lived in a trailer with her husband and later children because he was working in heavy construction and had to go where the work was. I also learned that with some retired people they live on cruise ships. I would think that is exciting because I love the sea, but try to convince some of my friends to come along would be impossible. I think that if you make the trailer, camper, tent, etc. to be like a home, then it would be all right, but if you just slap things together as what happens when you live in a car, not that good. I do think that if the police see that the camper has the pans hang up, and blankets, food items, clothes and see bookcase built in plus a stove and a ice box, they know that the people inside are not vagrants and not up to no good.

Homelessness can learn to alot of very negative things. Being less apt to be clean they get body mites and even lice. SOme have severe psychotic problems that make it next to impossible for them to live normal lives. Paranoia and schizophrenia is just two of several things that could be going on. Then there are those that want to wander. It would be such fun to get out on the open road and see the country. I think these people should have the right to do so as long as it doesn't cause problems elsewhere.

My dream is to live in a RV one day and travel the nation and if possible, the world. In my opinion, no it's not bad. I read of a man, who chooses to be homeless because he doesn't want to be bound to material things. He's something like a Monk in the mountains minus the religion part. I don't know if the interference is justified because if the man is living on someone's "private" or "tax paid" property then, I guess other's are free to say what they want but at the same time, I think of the nomads in other countries who have lived that way for many years but once borders were made, they had to make new arrangements to their lifestyle due to laws.

Homeless is always unfortunate. I've come across a few people who I never thought were homeless. They were sleeping in a different friend's apartment every week. It is not bad per se. There are people who do things like travel the world or go backpacking. Those who have been down on their luck and have no support system or no one to be with have had an unfortunate turn of events happen to them. Why or how this turned out is could be none of our business or a cause to action.

Homelessness is a consequence of poor housing policy in a country. I think if people have at least the possibility to live in a RV, then authority should let them in peace and the State must build houses for these people. It's better to sleep in a RV that on the street. Homelessness ia a world problem and affect more the poor countries. This is really a social problem and it need deep reforms. Perhaps living in a RV isn't accepted because you need water and sewer facilities. :)

I guess it's okay if you can rent an apartment on another place at once but if you're homeless because you're broke then you better do something about it. Being homeless commonly is bad but, from your definition, I guess business men who fly from town to town are considered homeless despite having the money to rent an apartment to live in. There are also NBA players who jump from team to team, that means jumping from one city to another within the whole season. I guess you can also consider them homeless.