Think college student budget. $3500 to????? As for rules. There are many homeless who are trouble. There are also many who are clean law abiding people who seek an alternative that won 't bankrupt them before they are done with school. If this young man were mentally ill he would have the civil right to wander around all day talking to his special friends in his head,defacating in the bushes and sleeping in any doorway he so chose (at least in California anyway) ,but if he has the means to buy a van,register it and insure it then he will be breaking the rules. Oh well.