Try to notice whether it's women with children who get this help. In my experience, there's not much difference between the amount of help for males or females when children aren't involved. The help seems to be allocated based more on problem: domestic violence victim, alcoholism or substance abuse recovery, HIV+/AIDs sufferer.

I'm sure the type of help available also varies from area to area within the US, since here, much of that type of help is run by 501(c), private, or religious organizations, rather than being government-run.

There is a lot of help in the area where I live for homeless men, partly because there are lots of veterans here. It's still not enough to help everyone who needs it, though.

One area where most of the US falls short is in providing help to homeless families. There are very few shelters that are equipped to let families stay there together.