In everywhere but Scotland, the council has absolutely no duty to home you unless you are in "priority need" - you're a family with children, pregnant, homeless due to a disaster, or are severely (usually physically) disabled or at risk of domestic abuse.

Being homeless is plenty possible, especially for young men. And what about those who aren't of sound mind, anyway? Do they just not deserve a roof over their heads?

The unemployment system is horrifying, and you cannot access jobseekers' for up to a month if you quit a job of your own accord. Being self-employed, it's even more complicated as you don't pay the relevant taxes - meaning you have to go through an alternative system. If you can't afford a £150 fine to go see a doctor for a life-threatening condition, you can't afford to go without income for a month. I'm going to bet DPD have fines for quitting the job, too.

Yeah, because the £150 charge for going to the doctor had nothing to do in influencing the man's choices. /s

maybe he didn't had £150 for another fine, you don't need to be that smart to see the conditions are as restrictive as being employed, wear uniform, can't work for another carrier, etc. fines, etc. yet you're classified as contractor and get no benefits.

Is clear an abuse from the company, you trying to blame the victim, is disgraceful.

> where the government provides you with unemployment benefits

With a delay if you become intentionally unemployed (though in this case, I assume he wouldn't be considered to have become intentionally unemployed).

> and being homeless is basically impossible if you are of sound mind

This simply isn't true, unfortunately.

Funny, I regularly see comments by homeless people in the UK on Reddit. There was a recent article there about a homeless guy dying after the council took his sleeping bag:

http://metro.co.uk/2018/01/23/homeless-man-died-days-council...

If you become intentionally unemployed there's a delay before you get any money.

If you're in a Universal Credit area there's a minimum 6 week delay before you get any money.

> being homeless is basically impossible if you are of sound mind.

This is horseshit.

> being homeless is basically impossible if you are of sound mind

So everyone should be OK with the bare minimum of living standards? Just because you won't be on the street doesn't mean you'll be safe, comfortable, and happy.

> The man chose to go to work

It's easy for someone with lots of choices to look at someone else and assume they also have choices.

Old people live in terror of losing their source of income. They're essentially unemployable, so they end up doing some of the worst jobs that are available.