If you're forced to live on the street because you can't afford any kind of housing, you're just going to get arrested and forced into a minimum wage job where you still can't afford housing. Then you're still not affording housing, aren't you now basically enslaved if you're just going to get arrested again and forced to work a minimum wage job?
About 53 percent of the sheltered homeless had formal labor market earnings in the year they were observed as homeless, and the authors’ find that 40.4 percent of the unsheltered population had at least some formal employment in the year they were observed as homeless.
This finding contrasts with stereotypes of people experiencing homelessness as too lazy to work or incapable of doing so.