Why does Washington, D.C., seem to have so many more homeless people than other cities?

One reason that it does not get much publicity is that DC ends up being the place of residents not only for those people in DC who end up homeless but for many homeless from surrounding suburbs who are denied shelter for legally questionable reasons. DC at least does accept people who enter the city as refugees from the suburbs that reject them.

My own story is an example. I had resided in Montgomery County, Maryland for three years when I was divorce-raped by the Montgomery County Circuit Court that held hearings without notifying me of them and issued orders in those hearings that garnished my salary until I could not afford rent and was evicted. I tried to file appeals, but the bitch who processed new filings at the Montgomery County Court House shouted at me, “Don’t you do it! Have your lawyer do it!” When I said I couldn’t afford a lawyer, she bellowed at me, “GET ONE ANYWAY!!!” So that meant I had no legal status in Montgomery County and had to seek help elsewhere.

I went to Social Services and told them that I was newly homeless and had nowhere to go. I was given a bus token and was told to go to the county shelter. However, when I got there, the monster who ran the shelter shouted at me, “We don’t give shelters to men! We only give shelters to women and children!” Because it meant I was literally in the streets, I was too shaken up to give her the reply that she deserved. Never mind that what she said was 100% illegal; as I…