Not judging it, but i am sure most people who were homeless are from the US.
I cannot imagine an EU citizen saying "I was homeless for 6 months and it teached me many things about life, but now it's all cool, i am succesfull and just bought a new Porsche" or something like that.
In the rest of the world once homeless = in 99% of cases forever homeless and spending one's life at the railway station
At least this is what homeless means to me...