With sleeping bags and hot rocks and snap packs that you get from nurses that heat up when broken. 

I was a homeless kid once with my mother.  You'd be surprised how mny kids are homeless in this town.  Sleeping in cars, or tents with family.  I got lucky but not everyone does.

I had a 6th grade teacher thT cared enough to let me stay with her and risk her job doing so.  
I was only 12yr when she let me and my mother stay for 6months.  Long enough for my mother to save money with her job to get us our own apartment,  

Things aren't as cut n dry as some of you tend to think