This paper examines the life situation of homeless people within social security around the concept of Amartya Sen's capability approach. The analysed database is the 2023 “February Third” countrywide homeless survey, in which a total of 7,362 people living in homelessness were interviewed. The analysis of the survey presents the main demographic (age) and social (income, work capability, health status, reasons of becoming homeless, housing security) characteristics of homeless people, as well as the effects of the 2023 recession. One of the results of the data analysis – which primarily applied multivariate social statistical methods – is that it highlighted some contradictions present within the survey data. By understanding these paradoxes, it can be concluded that, on the one hand, there are social patterns of deprivation from resources (and consequently from opportunities), which accumulate; and on the other hand, these patterns do not form randomly. Thirdly, these patterns of disadvantage are not evenly distributed among homeless people. The research thus shows that different degrees of deprivation mark out distinct deprivational pathways.