As I wrote the other day, not all homeless are destitute. Nor do they all live in shelters or under bridges.
In this excellent article in the International edition of the New York Times, the author profiles a family that lives in a motel in California. This is sad, but it is NOT rare. I see this a lot, especially when a family can afford the $200 a week to stay in a motel, but cannot save the nearly $2000 to move into an apartment (I explained how that works here.)