The Franciscans had to have material possessions.  After all, they had bodies and needed a place to sleep, food to eat, a place to gather as as a community, and a place to be buried.  And there is nothing in either of these books about the women Franciscans led by Clare of Assisi who really held the early followers of Francis together.  They consulted her and she prayed and gave spiritual wisdom to them.

Since you apparently don't know what religious communities are REALLY doing, your comments about divesting some of their assets, for the poor, are laughable.  Many religious communities HAVE and ARE doing that.   There are a variety of ways of doing that---and the Franciscan communities are doing a lot.  So are many other religious communities of men and women.  But religious communities also have their elderly members, too.  And like the early Franciscans, these human beings, have human needs, just as you do.