I'm soon to be homeless, luckily I got a little bit of money back from my taxes. I bought a tent and a bunch of supplies. I just want to have a safe spot to set up a tent and not sorry about my stuff when I find a job. I'm willing to pay rent especially if I could use the bathroom, occasional shower, and plug in my extension cord. I'm also a trans woman so someone queer friendly.

I got kicked out even though it's someone else's fault I collect ssdi and just need to tough It out but I'm tired of being homeless and need a safe place I'm a gut and tired I leave people alonr

Any tips on how to handle state marketplace health insurance and medication pick ups if you leave your insured state to stay housed somewhere else temporarily? I’m able to see a PCP virtually but how do you workaround a different state address for delivery of meds or pharmacy? I don’t want to have to lose my insurance and start all over and run out of meds for a temp bed-surf situation.

losing childhood home due to my mom who sadly passed away got in with a bad loan and fell behind on payments due to her health deteriorating so stuck having to do short sale and will end up with nothing and out on the street. havent been able to save because got stuck paying my moms hospital bills funeral expenses ect so don’t have funds for a apartment or down deposit. To ashamed and embarrassed to ask for help will have to live in my car after losing everything. I don’t know how more i can take. 😢🙏

i want to learn how to be financially responsible and actually start paying for my own things instead of mooching of my brother. should i start paying for my own netflix disney etc even with only about 300$ in my account?

I’m 44 male, got a small 3 legged dog.

I get a generous sum of ssdi but it’s not enough to live any sort of life by itself.

I’ve been dealing with on again off again homelessness for 3 years now.

I currently rent a room in a depressing unaffordable location in wa state, but I need a big change.

My logic is telling me if I can find another good human that gets a monthly check we could pretty much afford to live anywhere better together than me alone.

I’m looking to move anywhere USA or Mexico/South America.

I hope to find someone stable that wants to get ahead and link up to afford a better house in a better location filled with quality of life.

I enjoy staying active, hiking, biking, walking.

I love the sunshine.

Anyone up to discuss the possibilities?

I'm getting back on my feet after 1.5 years of being forced to leave home and survive the streets and public of the U.S.. Sometimes I wonder how I'm still living, no criminal record. I've been assaulted before but haven't had any medical issues because of it.

I don't understand how fate and chance have spared me. Maybe I just wanted to live that bad but my existence seems so fragile it entrances me how I haven't had worse consequences

I'm smart person but have poor self control. I don't understand my life at all

my mother who has been cheated on and abused a good bit by her ex husband, has finally kicked him out. issue is he was the source of ALL the money. im only now getting a job, and she does not have one. she is trying to get one, but i dont have faith in her getting one. she is too mentally ill, and physically not too well.

what do i do? we survive basically on my brothers social security since our real father died. he is almost 18, and once he is, we are gonna be homeless. he is 15 currently.

it hurts so much more for me because i was so close to escaping. i want to move with my bf so bad, living in this home is making me go insane. our family has a very rough relationship, so there is a lot of past memories and actions that make me bitter and angry still even though im almost 22. i just dont know what to do. i dont know what to look for or how to look for anything, our home doesnt help. doesnt help she has a felony (father was cheating on her, she threw a cup at his head)..

we live in hillsboro oregon, i mention this incase there is something that can help poorer families? or something? im grasping for straws

Homeless,42 years old,no kids just me and my Australian cattle dog,everyplace i look into only serves women with kids or they won't allow me to have my dog.i'm willing to go anyplace in the USA as long as i can have my dog, please help

I was 4 days away from sleeping in a tent. That isn’t an exaggeration. I’ve been through hell and put a noose around my neck everyday for a week and just couldn’t do it. I have drank alcohol for the pure feeling to calm the overwhelming stress. Eviction, 211, loss of my car, throwing away and selling everything I’ve worked for. I legit think I will have PTSD when I’m older from the last few weeks.

Let me just say, I’m extremely lucky. If anything in life has saved me it’s that I try to be a good person and treat others well. I am empathetic and caring to a fault.

With that being said, someone in my life, who is wealthy, saw my situation. I didn’t ask, he offered, but He is moving me to a major city, where I won’t need a car, and is even consigning me a tiny studio apartment. Paying for the U-Haul to go there, and paying for the deposit.

His only wish is that I get a job, become self sufficient, and never let myself get to that point again.

I have a new lease on life. I believe in miracles. I believe in people.

I don’t know what I did to deserve this. But im going to make the best of it

I suffered a head injury a few years ago and quickly developed memory problems, attention issues, and severe depression and suicidal ideation.  I finally got diagnosed with Post Concussion Syndrome afterward but never received treatment.  I battled depression ever since and during quarantine, I developed severe anxiety. I started to have flashbacks and nightmares about abuse I suffered before.  I stopped going outside in 2021. When I was afraid about how much I wanted to go away forever, I sought help from a therapist and have been in therapy ever since. My therapist diagnosed me with PTSD in addition to MDD.  On the physical side, I have PCOS, severe anemia (getting slowly better), severe migraines, and was (finally) recently diagnosed with Trigeminal Neuralgia.

I was in school full time and when I had to leave in December 2018, because of the complications with the head injury, I found a job 3 months later and worked until June 2021.  During lockdown, I developed very long periods that went on for 3 to 4 months and subsequently developed severe anemia, unbeknownst to me. When I had to go back to work in person at the start of 2021, I would constantly feel I was going to faint and had constant heart palpitations. I was finally diagnosed in April of 2021 but needed to see a specialist. I live with my mom and sister, who both thought I was just being lazy, despite the fact that I workled the same job and the same hours as them and I walked to and from work (1 mile) every day.  They constantly said how slothful I was and that I didn’t want to work whenever I had to stay home because the nausea from the iron medicine was so bad or I was in and out of the bathroom every 5 minutes.

Cut to 2021, where the depression and anxiety was so bad that I couldn’t get out of bed. As soon as I woke up, this sense of impending doom would come over me. I barely ate and didn’t shower. I was barely functioning which of course was because I was lazy and faking and didn’t want to work. When I finally went to seek help from a therapist, they said I was lying to the therapist because nothing was wrong with me. Then, they said my therapist was brainwashing me because, “There’s nothing wrong with you so why are you pretending to be a cripple or handicapped.” And even though I knew I wasn’t faking this, that I would give anything to just be the way I was before…I began to believe that I was doing this to myself. And when my therapist said I had a disability, I felt like I must be a horrible sick person who was making herself depressed because I didn’t want to work. 

I have come a long way from that. I am on medication now. I get out of bed. I bathe almost every week. I still have trouble with hygiene and self care. I don’t really go outside but I have been trying my best to go to the market more than once a month and I went to the first in person therapy appointment in 2 years last month which is a big deal for me.  I am also working with the Department of Rehabilitation to go back to school to finish my degrees and become a bioengineering researcher. I have no idea how I’ll do this with agoraphobia but I’m trying to remain hopeful. 

So now that you have some background, I want to get to my question. Is there a way for me to find housing or to get a social worker who can help me get housing? I need to leave this place because I don’t want to go back to feeling suicidal.  The constant barrage of attacks have just gotten worse. They call me a fake and a burden and a leech from the government because I have medicaid and ebt. They say I don’t deserve to eat and that the food benefits should be theirs because they are hardworking Americans and I’m just another lazy leech.  They constantly threaten to throw me out. They laugh and say they can make me homeless. Anything and everything I do makes them angry and extremely hostile. And the worst thing is, I can’t just leave the apartment to avoid them. And they know it and they enjoy taunting me about it.

I just want to be able to live in a place where I don’t constantly get attacked and mocked because I am feeling down or being called a drug addict for taking antidepressants and Tylenol for migraines and excruciating nerve pain in my face. I want to have privacy when I talk to my doctor. I want to be able to use the bathroom without someone opening the door and screaming about me being crazy because I tell them to close the door and that they need to knock. I just want to feel safe. I just want to be somewhere where my stress levels aren’t at a constant high and I can work on myself further and hopefully make more progress.  I would appreciate any advice or just kind/encouraging words. I’m sorry if this is way too long. Thank you for taking your time to read this.

P.S. I'm in the US

Hey all, as you can tell from the title, we are a South African couple and about to become homeless. We were homeless before about 15 years ago, but had a small car to sleep in and got ourselves sorted out after about 6 months of living like that. How we got to this point again is a story probably all to familiar to everyone out there, so I won't bore your with all the details.

Being homeless in South Africa is quite different from being homeless for example in the USA. There is very little to no support and if you are European and in your early 50's, like us two, you're screwed! Not that we are considering it, but even dumpster diving is not a thing here, when we throw stuff out here, it's done for!

South Africa is arguably the 3rd most dangerous country in the world. Our country has 5 cities on the list of top 10 most dangerous cities in the world, that's 50% !!!. The government has lost complete control over crime with the daily homicide rate currently estimated at 75 people being murdered each day. Even murders here are not like anywhere else, people are mostly butchered in the most hideous of ways. Don't get me started on the racial tension and deliberate and organized killing of European farmers in South Africa and all the other scandalous and shameful behavior of the elected government.

A simple Youtube/Google search for "White squatter camps South Africa" will also reveal how different homelessness for white people is over here compared to other parts of the world.

With the background set, let me get right to it. This time around, we have even lost our car so we'll have to rough it out in the elements indefinitely. Autumn has just started and our first order of business is to get ourselves from our inland location down to the coast as soon as possible. Inland the temperatures reaches extremes in the summer of 45 degrees Celsius and up to -3 degrees Celsius in the winter as opposed to the more mild 27 avg max and 15 avg min at the coast line (in exchange for more rainy weather however).

We have a very tiny income stream that might just cover very basic food expenses (about $1.10 per day for two people), but there is no way we can make rent or buy gym memberships etc.

We are admittedly completely inexperienced with living rough on the streets and have been staring at Google Street view maps for days already, trying to locate spots that seem safe to sleep at. Being at the coast means, there are beaches. The beaches do not really offer shelter and are mostly covered by by a variety of low growing ground cover etc. with the exception of some very tiny forests owned by our local national parks boards etc...(they are to far from resources any ways). There are some patches of wild vegetation scattered among the residential areas, but these seem to be heavily monitored by CCTV and the hoards of local private security outfits (big business here in SA). Wild camping (boondoggin) is however illegal in South Africa.

We kind of have food sorted, and keeping clean will be tough, but we will probably manage by bird bathing, using mall rest rooms etc. while not making a nuisance of ourselves of course.

We do not want to construct a shelter but we are looking at something temporary every evening, and leave no trace behind when we move out for the day is a priority.

We will not consider shelters at all.

We will also not consider joining any of the white squatter camps.

We might consider pitching a small popup tent in someone's garden every evening if they offered, but this is South Africa, most people are on high alert in terms of safety and security at all times and we honestly can not blame them.
So if there are any of the seasoned and experienced vagabonds out there who could somehow just give us some ideas of which areas to focus our search on, type's of spots we can consider etc...

We might have a 3rd bag containing some extra clothing etc. which we wont need to carry with us everyday and we though of trying to stash/hide it somewhere. Any suggestions of spots to look out for. Renting lockers it a no go. We though of baying a 25L plastic bucket/lid and burying the whole thing somewhere...
Perhaps also a little bit of incite as to how you spend your days for example, when it is very hot, very cold, rainy etc...these seem like things we will need to consider from now on as people get suspicious and mean quickly over here and we need to blend in.

The particular towns that we have identified as possible destinations are very touristy, so on regular day's we can blend in just fine...when, for example, it's raining, and everyone is sitting nice and snug in their home's, hotels, B&B's etc...we'll be outside and will need to pass the time without standing out too much.

Also any ideas as to how we can start earning a little extra income. We would prefer side hustle type stuff like washing shop windows (we will be at the coast and they get dirty fast), help exchange for meals at restaurants or hotels, donation based walking tours (government requires special permits for this - but it's an idea none the less).. We would prefer not to ever be tethered to an employer ever in our lives again. Doing so just relinquishes too much control over our own lives to someone else and their skills to operate a business successfully etc... This is exactly what gets us into trouble each time. We have to break this cycle for good. All the money we are hoping to save up, will go towards getting our passports and getting the hell off of this God forsaken continent and do volunteer/help exchange work until we die.

I honestly can not believe I am writing all of this and that our lives have turned out like this. It's utterly demoralizing to have to let go of the things we hold dear to us and reduce our belongings to two 25L, supermarket bought, backpacks, we already have so little. The more we think about what's waiting for us once we close our apartment door behind us for the last time at the end of this month, the more numb our brains seem to get. We are intelligent people yet we can't seem to figure out what is supposed to be such a simple thing. Where to sleep safely at night without money and basically just blend into a community without raising suspicions.

Hey,

If you are really really looking for a/another passive income stream that has the potential to make you a nice paycheck every month with little to no work at all then shoot me a message.

I need to ask you a few questions and if you're the right person then I'll share the method totally free.

You can easily make a few thousand usd per month.

Only for US citizens.

Stories of hope? Did someone take you in? How are you making it through day to day?

All I wanted to say to whoever finds my laptop or phone is...I've done this to myself, it's my own fault, I was alive, I existed.

Check your housing authority to see if they have a Mainstream Voucher, it is a shorter wait for people with disability who are almost homeless. Also, I’m not sure how effective it is because some have preference for people who live there, but don’t limit your applications to your own area, apply to other housing authorities. Write down where you apply because if you move you need to notify them so they can send you mail, maybe a PO Box or someone can receive the mail for you if needed. You are considered homeless if couch hopping.

In my area, the mainstream voucher was not posted online, I had to contact them through email/phone to ask about it. Apply for both section 8 and the mainstream of course. The wait is still going to be long, but if you qualify definitely don’t just wait for section 8.

I'm gonna be evicted. My abusive mother doesn't want me to move back. My credit is gonna be fried after being evicted. My life is over I'm 24 and I don't want to do this anymore

I need Hyatt points because I have no more money to pay for the hotel.

My Membership Number is: 556106936H.

A minimum of 5000 points per night is required. My wife and two small children are with me. I lost my job six weeks ago and my wife works part-time. It's a long story how I got into this situation and I'm not here to make excuses, but if someone can help, please help.

Im worried about being housebound/houseless or struggling to access doctors esp financially and fighting to get on SSI Disability. I haven’t had a consistent medical team willing to believe me and fight for me. I’ve just incurred more and more medical trauma. Which is the reality of being Black QT and Disabled in the medical industrial complex. I worry about being able to qualify without continuous documentation… I’m considering relocating but WHERE WILL I LIVE?! and I’m so fatigued from navigating doctors on my own PLUS housing crises… it’s like the decks are stacked against me and I wish I knew more people like me that won their case… lawyers just told me I can only work under 20 hours a week and make less than $1K per month before taxes which is nowhere near enough to make even subsidized rent. AM I JUST FUCKED??!!

I am a 32 yr old and I have been living out of my car for about a month now. I am doing this in an attempt to focus more on paying off my college debt before my co-signer (father) retires in less then 3 years. Aldo before you ask yes I have looked into any and every avenue on trying for loan help. I have tried everything in my power to keep my decision and choice from my family in hopes to spare them from constantly worrying about me. What I am doing is very much hard enough but adding them constantly being worried and everything would be another weight I would have to bear to my already rough situation. I would rather them worry on other big events like my sisters wedding later this year or my mom and dad’s 39th anniversary. I feel like my family knows something is up between my sister asking my friends what’s up and my mom sending me housing rentals to look into. (She has never done this btw). Finally this is just not a conversation I really want to have at the moment. I know they just want to help and I know they won’t be happy but I am an adult and this is my choice in hopes of bettering my future so I can actually have a life free from my crippling debt. Any advice on how to approach this situation?

I’m 17 years old and it’s just my mother and I. We live in Massachusetts and we are being evicted in 9 days if we don’t come up with $8,000. My mom has a terrible credit score and can’t get approved for any loans. She has nobody to lean on, no support from anyone. We are desperate as she has nowhere to go and will be homeless if we don’t come up with this money. Are there any options for us, even at insane interest rates?

Hey all, I want tostart this off by saying that i'm not saaking for monetry support. But I guess I am 'technically' homeless because I am a couch surfer and have no actual address.

I need advice, emotional support, or ANYTHING. I'm just very scared and alone.

I'm completely at a loss as to what to do, and I am asking for advice, moral support anything, really. I feel alone, scared, and I see no light at the end of the tunnel.

Here is my situation. I'll try to condense this as much as possible, so hopefully it doesn't come across as an insufferable sob story.

My father was born with a rare genetic nerve disease that caused him a lot of pain and prohibited him from getting work a lot of the time. He coped with this by turning to alcohol, tobacco and morphine. This led to my parents divorce.

He later committed suicide when I was 12 by downing an entire bottle of morphine and drinking Sake. I was the first to find his body. In a pool of crusted blood. My mother forced me to kiss his cold, dead body.

This left me with a lot of emotional scars, given that my father was my best friend and biggest advocate despite his issues.

My mother also sexually abused me from time to time from the ages of 6 - 8 years old.

My grandparents from my fathers side died in a freak accident, and my grandparents from my mothers side have died of natural causes.

I have no cousins or siblings. My mother, who sexually abused me, and later physically and verbally abused me, is the last person I have as immediate family.

I was living with an ex, just to stay away from my mother, but he scammed me out of my money for rent, and I had to move in with my mother. She continued to sexually, verbally, and physically abuse me to a point where I contemplated suicide.

I never had *too* many friends during school, and have reached out to the ones that I do have, but none of them are willing to give me a place to live.

I was so, SO desperate to get out, that I moved in with someone I barely know from Discord.

This man promised me that he just wanted to help me. He reassured me, over and over again that there was no romance involved and that he just wanted to make me feel safe.

This was apparently a lie, just to get me over here to live with him.

He sleeps with me in the bed, without my consent. He refuses to take me to get my essentials (we agreed that one of the first thing he would do is to help me get set up), when I force him out of the bed, he'll stare at me in the dark, and it's very very scary.

I am in a state with NO public transportation whatsoever. The closest bus stop is probably a 3 hour walk away.

I have no friends to turn to. I have no family to turn to.

I have no phone number, and I have no bank account for a card. I have no place to go. I don't have a drivers licensee and I don't have a car. I only have about one hundred dollars in cash.

I can't get a job without a car. I cant get a car without a job. I can't get a job without a phone number but I cant go to AT&T without transportation. I can't get my own place without a job or a card and it's just a never ending cycle. I can't get a loan because I have no phone number, no card and no banking details. All i have is my laptop, and shitty Wi-Fi that works a couple hours a day.

I guess it's mostly my fault, for trusting a random person from the internet, but it was my literal last beacon of hope. I have, and still am, in such a dark place.

What I've always wanted to do, was to get a small little studio apartment somewhere, be self sufficient, and study at an online college to get my dream job in IT. But I feel like I've hit a true wall. I feel like there's nothing left for me. I feel like I've exhausted all my options and I feel like there's only one way out of this situation.

What would you do in this situation? Do you have any advice for me? Anything at all?

I went to Porto Alegre to see a public Attorney at the state defensory and try to apply for cheaper housing and public programs at the public ministry (no luck there). The Attorney got me 45 more days before I need to leave my apartment.

I wanna start by saying I know this sub isn’t for asking for financial help that’s not my goal, I was told you people are creative and that’s what I need to be rn.

My cars been in the impound yard for old tags for almost three months now, they’ve worked with me immensely to get the car back but it’s just been there for too long and they’re now able to apply for the title and I’ll have to end up paying $600 in fees anyways. If it makes any difference I have an insane sentimental attachment to the car and am at a point of desperation where I’ll do just about anything lol

Any advice helps thank you guys!!!

I will be homeless soon, but thankfully I have a job and I'm currently looking for a car to live in. How do I spot scams on Facebook Marketplace? Facebook Marketplace is pretty much known for scamming and I really don't want to lose all my money. I don't have much and it would be devastating to lose it all to a scammer..

No matter what I do, it seems I can't get back on my feet. I've lived in 12 cities since 2020, unable to hold down a job or relationships due to my mental health. Nobody will hire me. I have a torn rotator cuff and can't afford to get it taken care of. I have nothing beyond a high school diploma, no technical work experience, and no family or friends to lean on for help. I'm 26, completely broke, no license, and about to lose what little I have all over again. All the shelters around me are full, but I don't have a way to get to them anyways.

I'm tired of scraping along the bottom. I'm waiting for my tax return so I can go get a hotel room for a few days and live it up before I cut the cord. I don't know what else to do. I don't want to die, but I don't know what other options I have.

I'm in San Diego, if that helps in any way.

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Hello everyone. Right now I have a job, a car and an apartment but I am still worried that I will become homeless due to mental and physical problems. Is anyone here in a similar situation? If so, what are you doing to get help with your mental or physical problems?

After I graduated college, I didn’t have a job or anywhere to go (foster care, violent family). My then partner let me stay at her place while I lived off my credit card. I had to sleep in my car here and there when she had guests over or when she had family visit so I wouldn’t say it was ever my home.

I looked it up online and found a resource that suggests my situation was “temporarily staying with other people” and that is a form of homelessness because it comes down to the fact that she could have told me to leave at anytime.

I didn’t use her address or anything or paid for rent since I was living off a credit card, I just stayed there until I saved up enough money to move into an apartment. But is that still considered homelessness? I’ve always had a hard time discerning.

Hi i’m 19 yrs old. I need to move out of my parents. I’ve been getting hit punched beat threatened degraded and more way more than a couple times every single year for 5 years I have a lot of ptsd and can’t live in the house anymore. My dad says he kicked me out tonight but he’s been doing that for a few years too, so i have time to pack and stay as needed. he’s abusive towards not just me but my family member and other people or family members (not in his house).

i need advice on what i could do to possibly save as much money as i could. it’s not ideal by any means but i don’t have a problem doing the almost absolute bare minimum i don’t want to stay at a hotel every night either or every month(dailymonthly) until i get a job because i really need to have my savings throughout. Maybe a cheap month motel or room for a while. i thought maybe pay to sleep spots where u just camp at ur own risk but those places are limited. I’m trying to find advice on a region or place that would be more helpful to go to i can go pretty much anywhere in usa.

i got felony neglected and abused since i was 14 i couldn’t even call cops bc i got threatened the second i mentioned calling cops so i can’t rlly use my dads address and i have to store my stuff and it’s a lot, i keep realizing i have to pay to store my stuff lol. if this post isn’t allowed i’m very sorry