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If your possessions fit in a locker. But I think security here is to prevent or react to violence, not necessarily theft. I’ve heard stories of homeless people avoiding shelters because you can get raped, for example.



> But I think security here is to prevent or react to violence, not necessarily theft.

Perhaps I'm quibbling, but I suspect that violence and theft aren't necessarily separate categories of incident.


I was just thinking that it’d be really hard to avoid theft in a camp settlement.


The reasons I've heard for avoiding homeless shelters were theft, robbery and lice.




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