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Homelessness is probably the loneliest feeling a human can have.
The youth groups from Princeton and Bradford who participated recently in a night of sleeping in a cardboard box learned empathy for the homeless. Soon enough they would be home again where people loved them, took care of them, fed and clothed them. In large cities, designated people drive around and pick up the bodies of street people who have frozen to death during the night. I have seen street people huddled on subway grates for warmth and carrying their boxes to a spot that's out of the wind and close to a building in order to absorb as much warmth as possible. In New York on 32nd Street, there is a whole town of box people who gather at night in the great open-ended ports where the buses exchange their passengers.