A home. It doesn’t have to be great. Four walls and a safe place with electricity and plumbing. Enough that you don’t spend 50% of your time wondering where you will sleep and shit.
This is actually a huge problem with food stamps. People have to buy shit like lunchables since they don’t have a fridge. And then people are all “rice and beans, I can eat for 20 cents a day.” That shit is heavy. Carry around a bag of rice and beans all day and let me know how your back feels.
And again.. I have been homeless. When you struggle to find food and then hey there is a job you could get across town. But the bus is 3 bucks and you smell like you slept next to the river because you did. What is the fucking point of wasting the cash when you could just sit next to the river munching on saltines. You have no clean clothes.. You have no address.. You have no access to a shower or razors. There is a reason the homeless have beards.