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If i was homeless i'd probably want driving to some smaller towns or hooking up with jobs, but the latter is a lot to ask for and nobody seems to do the small town strategy i have in my head, so i guess I truly don't know what it's like.
Then again, the decent homeless shelters and charities are in big cities. My city has LOADS but also has/recently had an industry of drug dealers exploiting these charities.
If you want to genuinely help homeless people, go into it being aware that there are dangerous and horrible people who it is not safe to help, who just love exploiting people.
If you want to help the homeless, do it through a charity, i.e making face-2-face contact with ones going through the right channels to get help - perhaps you will encounter people who need directing to these charities or don't know they exist.
Why would you want to be driven to smaller towns?
My logic is that it has less competition of homeless people, and in my country they have more jobs there because not enough non-retired people live there or can travel there for work.
I live in a city next to a big national park and there's a bunch of villages out there with many hotels and cafes and shops for hikers and climbers visiting the area, but - the train fare to these places costs 1 hour of wages. Buses and trains only go through occasionally so timing it is a bit of a pain too.
If one needs a job but doesn't have to worry about getting back home to the city, why not go somewhere where they need more hands?