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I spent a few years witnessing to homeless people. I found out the Red Cross and most of the homeless programs in Florida were scams. Most of them charged a fee but they were one of the few that pushed "money upfront". It is $63 per week or $10 per day. You can stay free 3 days in a lifetime. The bell ringers have to make a certain amount per night or they pull them off the buckets. You were trained to target women with kids and older people. After the Christmas season if you did well, you may be invited into their one or two year program. You could stay for free whether or not you were employed or in school. You had to bring in close to $1500 a day for that.

Another program in another place housed disabled people leaving hospitals without a place to go. They helped them file for disability then charged them $600 per month to stay there. If you were turned down you had to have a partime job within 30 days and the equivalent of a full time job after 90. The state paid for 45 days and fed paid for 45 while you were there. For able body people, you had to stay in their program for two weeks so they would get the money for the first 45, then you had 30 days to get a partime job. What should have been a 90 program worked out to a month and a half and they were paid for residents they had already kicked out.

The last part of the scam was the hotels. They received money to house low income of "indigent" people. They take money to house people that aren't there, or they still charge them for being there. Also, shelters, churches, or other places, can give out vouchers for hotels.

What I put together is, any person can show up at a shelter, be told there is no room, get a voucher for a hotel, and disappear.