Every obvious hobo should have a right to a waterproof sleeping bag given to them at the nearest military base (within reason- they might not have it immediately in stock and if a war just broke out, there is priorities over them- I am speaking of a well stocked peacetime situation) that is rated to keep them warm in the worst of weather.
If a hobo wishes to find work, effort should be made to make shower, laundry, and uniform & sleeping bag storage available to them. This would involve in most communities a shower in a city police station, a washer machine in the back, and a locket to put their sleeping bag. Police can direct and keep in check which vagrants are trying for work, and which are just drunk off their ass. It should be understood not to arrest those for vagrancy who are trying for work, and to eliminate from the record those who do work who’s criminal file is directly related to being homeless so they can find work- not otherwise though.
Women with children should be put up- but not whole families. The father must sleep in the rain, and he can only have supervised visits, not can she divorce or be legally allowed to marry another man, or have a man live with her in state sponsored housing for those 5 years. This is to enforce families to find work, and not live off the system, or use babies as a means to having a extra source of exploitative income.
Doctors should pay their taxes via free clinic work, and no taxes on medical supplies period. Military should open up surgical schools, and triple it’s long term medical corps in these cities. Lawsuits against doctors should be reduced in payment, but increased in scrutiny in terms of being allowed to continue to work when medical boards reviews them… including fines and leave of absences which includes expulsion from their homes and forced to live in hobosacks… even if they can afford otherwise through other means. This will make more competent doctors- knowing no amount of insurance will protect their incompetency. If will favor more altruistic activity, will not target the pocketbook, but will threaten to destabilize their lives as much as it does the patient if they fuck up.
You may say this is cruel- but it’s completely fair and just. I myself was homeless for a year, and worked part time most of it, paying for storage and access to a gym for a shower. I remained quite civil, and paid taxes even. I only needed 4 months of public assistance before I could afford my own food, and never slept on the streets, but outside of town hiking in and out. Throughout human civilization, this was a norm for men to do… moving to a new city during a depression resulted in this. They just got on with life, and helped build up their new city though their labor… either starting a family or calling for their family once they could. Waterproof military surplus sleepingbags work… especially if you put a umbrella over the head and your backpack underyour head, with the handloop anchored there, and the umbrella on the log. After a while, I was able to afford a phone, and could watch TV on it, or internet. It felt rather civilized. Sucks getting up in the rain… but you have clean clothes in storage. Sucks having to walk to the gym several miles, but it keeps you in shape- not like you have anything else to do.
When the economy is good enough, you’ll find work. Meantime, study, study, study. Read the classics, visit the sites you wouldn’t otherwise have time to visit, study society. Don’t bitch and demand handouts, never beg and never dig through trash… if your finding you gotta do that, migrate.