You’re right that oftentimes it’s a matter of “Who knows?” But in this case it seems pretty clear to me. OP asked the equivalent of, “Do you know what time it is?” And ozarkian_tritep responded with, “Time to get a watch.”

The OP lightly brushes off that shit answer, but you take it seriously with meaningless and unhelpful advice. Time, effort, and passion obviously do not always lead to success, and that is certainly unhelpful advice in this scenario where the OP probably is looking for an answer immediately since it’s COLD out there tonight and they need a place to stay. Keep your chin up, reach for the stars, never give up, and all your dreams will come true, unless that dream is not freezing to death tonight.

I don’t say all this to be a dick, but I’d put money that’s why there were downvotes.

I just started volunteering for a cold weather shelter last year and for the first time encountered people referring to the homeless as unhoused. I suppose it humanizes their situation, with “unhoused” seeming less stigmatic. For example, I suspect the image of a dirty, disheveled guy sleeping off cheap booze on a big city street is a lot of the first images to come to someone’s mind when they hear the word “homeless”, while “unhoused” is that poor family that got evicted due to loss of job/medical bills, et cetera.