*Some* homeless people are known to those kinds of people. Maybe most. (Speaking of which, do we have Steven listed on the homeless shelters network?)
His information and a flyer was left at all of the Vegas shelters. Is there an interconnected network? It'd be great.
There's also a lot of room between having a regular job and apartment and living on the street. There are old-style communes and new-style urban squatters, ecovillages, plain old bums and panhandlers, couch surfers, undocumented workers of all kinds, gypsies and formerly middle-class people whose homes were foreclosed on living out of Volvo station wagons. They're there because they've lost their homes, can't handle middle-class life, drink too much, want to reduce their carbon footprint, want to practice their religious values, want to avoid the coming apocalypse, are seeking a simpler lifestyle, just want to see the country and live off the land for a while, can't get a work permit, are too lazy to work, just want to be somewhere else. You usually can't tell by looking which one's which, where they're going, or what they're up to.
Obviously Steven doesn't fall into every one of those categories, but he might be travelling or living with or beside some of them, or following the same path, or otherwise crossing paths. It's a big big world out there.[/QUOTE]
There's ways to do it, for sure.
I have a relative who moved in with a military couple, on a military base, with her two children, and lived there for two year's as the military wife's "sister". The military member "adopted" her children, and that gave them free health care, courtesy of the US Army.
But there was a previous relationship (they'd been neighbors).
