Why are the homeless criminalized? Is it because they lack the necessary tools to function in society, therefore, making them a liability? Because poverty causes them to break the law? Or is it for other reasons? American Society has long cast homelessness as a social problem while attempting to escape the reality that those without homes function in society with those who have homes. In America, prosperous citizens go to work, grocery shop, and sometimes even live by those who are in abject poverty and homeless. Homelessness is a continuous reminder of the inadequacies of the American economic system. I argue that there is a subpopulation in America whose reality is juxtaposed to that of the middle-class American, and because of this they
