Yup. I was homeless for a long tim, I was lucky. Most of the time I was at shelters but one shelter wanted me to go to a mental health clinic and they wanted me to attend groups. But the two groups they had were not for me, one was for low functioning people the other other for those with addiction problems. When I refused and went back to the shelter they called the cops, I was paranoid at the time so I tried to escape the cops, was hog tied thrown into a police car and carted off to the worse place I had ever been in. It was an observation place in the basement of a hospital, you had to go though several locked doors to get in, just like a jail where the so called nursing staff basically hung out behind plastic windows and ignored everyone. there were no beds just chairs. The bathroom was filthy and it was freezing cold. After about 24 hours They decided I didn't need to be hospitalized and let me out in the middle of the night with no way to get back to the shelter where my stuff was, which wouldn't have let me in that late anyway. When I returned to the shelter they told me I had to leave. So much for a Christian run shelter! That hospital place was only there for the homeless people they wouldn't ever dare treat anyone else that way and they didn't help beyond doping people up with heavy meds and sending on their way back to the streets.

Nope nobody ever looks at you, there's no bathrooms and no place to clean up and some of the people I met were the nicest people I've ever met. There was a free clinic for the homeless in one city, they were the greatest bunch of doctors and nurses I've ever met, they cared a lot about every person that came though the door. They helped me get back on medication and into a good shelter that has SW that helped me get a place to stay. It was possible for me cause I was on SSDI already and had a source of income, but so many people didn't have that and had no way to get the paperwork they needed to get SSI or any other help and and there's so few places that even see the homeless as people who wants to be degraded by asking for help?

Thank god for section 8, without that I'd never be able to afford an apartment. Getting a place to stay was the single greatest factor in achieving stability. They( the system) knows this but very little progress ever happens because of all the roadblocks, the most basic being ID papers and birth records. That and there's too many rules, I knew people who would rather be on the streets than be told they had to do x, y and z to have a place to live. Then there's the places( halfway houses) that are just there to rip off the system and get money for a cot in a room with several people in it.