 Many homeless people get caught up in the system and end up spending some time in jail strictly for doing things that, like I said, the rest of us do indoors and don't get punished. Many people believe that the whole problem wouldn't exist if the homeless had enough responsibility to go out and get a job. But what you may not know is that many homeless people already do have jobs, but they don't pay enough. The significant proportion of homeless people do have jobs.