She was never in trouble for the hit part it is the and run following.

If a homeless person wants to no longer be homeless, number one way to do so is to stop "looking" homeless. This means affording a gym membership to have a place to shower, and affording laundromat. Food and water come easy but you can't get clean without money, and without being clean it's hard to get allowed to sit in a coffee shop or library to stay warm/cool while you look for work or simply take shelter.