Ar-Rasheed Bey, a retired bus driver, has been living in an abandoned condominium ever since his month long stint in jail.

But now a bank is taking over the "abandominum,"as Bey likes to call it, so he will be kicked out any day. He receives $755 a month in retirement benefits and $189 per month in food stamps, so he has been trying to save up enough money to rent an apartment again.

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With a growing number of homeless people looking for affordable housing, he hasn't had much luck. "I've never seen so many homeless people in my life," he says.

Bey says he would rather go to jail and get three meals a day and a bed than sleep outside on the concrete in the cold. "I would throw a brick in the window of the police department until they came to take me to jail before I would live on the streets," he said.