re: Former Tiger great Malcolm Scott is living under an overpass.

pretty good article that talks about a guy in houston
LINK

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The next day Carbonneau told one of his friends in the Liquid Lunch Bunch what had happened. "I told you," his friend said. "I told you they lock you in at night."

But his drinking buddy could see that Tilghman wanted to help. Adept at working the system, he suggested a middle path back onto the grid - the Way Station at Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church and Operation ID at First Presbyterian. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, staff at the Way Station screened applicants trying to get their documents; staff at Operation ID guided those who qualified through the process.

That became Plan B.

By then Tilghman realized she couldn't change Carbonneau - he had to change himself. So she asked for his buy-in. She was happy to take him to Operation ID, but he had to go through the screening process by himself. If she was driving, he had to be on the bridge and ready to go when she said. Also, they were going to be in and out of a lot of government buildings, and stand in a lot of long lines. No griping.

He agreed.

The biggest riddle in the bureaucratic process was how to get ID for Carbonneau when he didn't have so much as a postcard bearing his name.

He began by obtaining a copy of his second marriage certificate by giving his name and that of his ex-wife to a clerk in a branch of the Harris County Clerk's Office. He was thrilled when Tilghman pointed to his name in her computer.

"I'm alive," he said to her. "I thought I was dead."

It was fairly easy to apply for a voter registration card by mail if Carbonneau could remember the last four digits of his Social Security number. Even after all those years, he could. But there was another hurdle: Carbonneau needed an address.

Tilghman wrote, "Under a bridge."

They waited for the card to appear in Tilghman's mailbox, then learned his application had been denied. Without a more specific address, a clerk explained, Carbonneau couldn't be assigned to a voting precinct.

They filled out the form one more time. This time they wrote, "Under the bridge at Woodway and 610."

That application was processed quickly.

By mid-April, Carbonneau had two forms of ID. He brought both of them to the Bureau of Vital Statistics to get his birth certificate.

"You can pick it up in an hour," yet another clerk told them.

That April afternoon, they also drove to a Texas Department of Public Safety office to get a laminated ID card.

They would have to wait a few weeks for the actual document, but they were closing in.

Religion for a recluse

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How does he not have a SSN? Everyone has a SSN.

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oh he has one, ask him what it is and I guarantee you he doesnt know

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Anyone can get one of these. Doesn't have to be a driver's license.

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no SS card, no address, no birth certificate
so no birth certificate, no photo ID means no job

unless he is working for cash like he says in the article

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How is he too incapacitated to work a "regular" job?

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he is a 53 yr/o man that lives under an interstate in NOLA. what makes you think he can work in his current state? Do you think he is able bodied? eating out of dumpsters? drinking or drugging himself into a stupor everyday. Do you want him cooking your hamburger?