New York orders homeless to shelters — but they refuse

It seems there is no point in arguing with a homeless man or woman, nor much point in ordering them into the warm when it is killingly cold outside. The New York State special edict ordering homeless into shelters is being ignored by street people. Their reasons — getting robbed, too dirty — sound a bit like a description of what it must be like to live on the street. The  main reason however seems to be that they just don’t want to go.