This seems to be something people don’t always give second thought to. When people talk about the homeless, the first things thought about are images of people on busy city streets in rusty clothes waiting around near allies. In there, the answer is quite static, because it can be I guess. But if that’s the case, change the setting and that changes too. In the places where I’ve lived, people often needed that mapped out. Where are they known in your rural locales?
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I lived in tents for the better part of a year. I’d set up anywhere with a bit of cover that wasn’t frequently walked through. Woods mostly.
My uncle was evicted from his house because he failed to maintain the property and let it go to shit. It was winter, so we invited him to stay in a spare room in our basement just to keep him out of the cold and give him time to sell his property and buy a trailer home.
He’s still living here.
I’ve got a couple of 23 year old homeless people living with me now. They just need a couple months to find a place for themselves, that’s what they said a year and a half ago when they moved in. I’m trying to help them out, but they really can’t stay here forever.
Also one of them is my daughter.
How long ago was that?
I think it’s been over 9 months.
Mental health problems by any chance? He may need more help than family can provide if you want him to get back on his feet (and out the door).
It would be a good sign if he seems like he wants to get his own place again, even if he’s not able to make steps towards it.
Source: I’d probably be in the same boat if the laws and property upkeep rules were stricter here. Even so, I’d be wanting to get out of family accommodation ASAP. My family are good people, but I can’t spend long periods with them. There might be a hint or two in that somewhere.
(But whatever you do, please don’t fail to be kind.)
Almost definitely. According to my mom, she referred him to the same neurologist who diagnosed my ADD when I was kid and she prescribed him ritalin. But apparently he didn’t like how it made him feel “too focused” or something like that.
I live in a suburban more than totally rural area but we have lots of trails and bushy areas around. Usually they just set up tents on the side of those trails. Walked past a guy who had an entire cot set up and was just napping on the side of a trail midday the other day. The benches in our area are also less anti-homeless than the ones downtown so I don’t doubt people sleep there at night.
I saw a video of one guy (who isn’t homeless but does urban camping on YouTube) set up camp in the middle of a roundabout with lots of bushes and I think that’s honestly probably one of the best spots where people wouldn’t find you/call cops on you.
In their cars.
Or their vans
One got transferred to a hospital last winter and eventually got into some kind of housing situation.
One tends to hang out at the Walmart.
Others are frequently in and out of one of the two hotels in town. We had three but they tore one down.
In the dense bushes across from the post office.
There’s a camp in the bushes behind our local bar. The bar is near a boat harbor as well so there’s water faucets where they usually shower. It’s a relatively small camp with about a dozen or so residents.
Abandoned homesteads, village homes or dachas. Some areas have a lot of abandoned houses. It sometimes takes years to find squatters in some places. My father in law is an alcoholic who has been moving between abandoned houses for 5 years now, sometimes with owner’s permission.
Near bigger cities, you sometimes get forest camps, but local government tends to remove them when they are found.
Mostly in the denser, more developed, city-like areas
Your area has knights?
