JOE is homeless on the streets of New York — yet his hair is neat, his beard clipped and his clothes clean and stylish.

His secret? He gets a different woman to take him home every night.

The 26-year-old from Boston picks up someone new three or four nights a week.

It means he gets to sleep on a comfortable bed and use a shower.

Most of the women he goes home with don’t seem to realise he curls up in cardboard for the other two or three nights. “If I strike out on a weekend night, it’ll be seven o’clock in the morning and girls will go wake me up and they’ll be like, ‘you passed out on the sidewalk, you need to go home,’” he tells Elite Daily in an eye-opening video.

“My responsibility is not to look homeless. I go to [US grocery chain] CVS and I take their hair gel; you know they have mirrors near the makeup section? I fix my hair, I grab a Red Bull and I walk out.”

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Joe has four “pretty good outfits”, which he wears on rotation.

He makes roughly $150 a day from begging, a handsome sum he attributes to his clean-cut appearance.

“If you’re the type of person who inspires compassion then people are going to give you money.

“The reason people give me the amount of money they do is because they realise they’re just that f***ing close to becoming homeless.”

He even gives money to other homeless people for food.

Joe, who was kicked out by his mother when she found his stash of drugs, spends his days drinking and admits he might be able to afford a house if he stopped.

He considers himself a “gypsy” rather than a “bum”, but says he would never advise a young person to do what he is doing.

“This abstract lifestyle is not for everybody,” he says. “I’m pretty sure if you look around you at the f***ing hundreds of thousands of homeless people in New York City, I’m the only one who could really pull this s**t off.”