I think more people are waking up to the problem of systems that turn people into products, commodities to be farmed. I think that more will begin to turn away from such systems, and faster, but not that it will be easy.
I don't doubt that you will take care of yourself on the next phase of your journey, but I'm sorry to hear it anyway. I can't see being homeless as anything other than a hardship. 
Then again, I also see the situation of that medical student as a hardship - and not the one I'd choose, of the two. I am part of the medical system (the job I left 
and the contract work I still do) on a much lower tier - my job had a Bachelor's entry level, though the education system's inflationary bubble quickly raised that to Master's and is now flirting with Doctorate. I have just about had it with the whole health care system, its regulations and its gatekeepers. For every amazing lifesaving treatment, there must be 100 people who have delegated the important task of taking care of their health to a *system* that doesn't really care what outcomes they get. And at least 100 "health care professionals" who wonder if there is any purpose to their hard work.