To answer the title of this update, usually not to any fault of their own. One of the factors contributing to the overwhelming apathy about homelessness in the American psyche is the idea that it is somehow a homeless person’s fault that they are homeless. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. The vast majority of homeless people are individuals who either aged out of foster care, left their housing as victims of domestic abuse, LGBTQ+ youth kicked out by their families, or seniors who ran out of money but physically can’t go back to work. Homelessness is the fate of those who are abandoned by our system. By ignoring homelessness, we ignore those core problems that plague our society. Homeless people are, for the most part, people just like us at Stuyvesant who had something happen to them that was out of their control, which led them to become homeless; then, when they become homeless, it’s very hard to get out of that cycle. Would you hire someone for your company if they were homeless, without access to a shower or clean clothes? No matter what you think, most hiring managers across the country would not.