I have a friend (f, 60) who is newly homeless. She has a part time job, a reliable vehicle, and is temporarily staying with us. She can’t stay with us due to a few issues, one being lack of livable space here, another is her paranoia and the fact that she doesn’t get along (at all) with my SO. I don’t want her to end up on te streets, but I don’t know how to help her. I have no idea what resources are available in either Fort Worth, Texas area or Baton Rouge, Louisiana area (she wants to move there if she can transfer with her job). Where do I direct her to start looking? How do I get her to seek help for her paranoia (that’s a whole other thread)? She has family, but they can’t help her. She had other friends, but couch surfed her way through those options already. Seems I am her “last resort”. Any advice, resource information would be greatly appreciated.

I got a job and I'm heading to job corps but I still feel hopeless for some reason? Like I feel like I'm gonna fix everything I've messed up but with how everything is going in the world I just feel like I'm bound to be homeless for a very very long time. Especially considering I declared bankruptcy and my credit is in the trash and I have no car. I just don't know how to feel about my whole situation.

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Yes you read that correctly. No it’s not a troll post. Sit back and I will explain on why this one concept will solve the homeless crisis.

Some background first- “Bumfights” was the name given to an underground show where homeless people were paid to either debase themselves or fight eachother. It shares close resemblances to “Hobo with a shotgun” and “the Running Man” by Stephen King.

Basically, homeless people will be pitted against eachother in fights for sport and entertainment, or given the opportunity to debase themselves for money. The logic is simple- this option is so humiliating and debasing that homeless drug addicts will start taking their actions more seriously to reintegrate into society or realize the danger and use this as a motivation to get out of their situation/ stay away from drugs and addiction.

The positives will be homeless people taking their issues more seriously and actively working more to improve their situation or face the consequences of fights with no/little medical care or humiliation. Profits from these gladiator type fights would be huge and a large underground market would emerge with the profits going to help homeless get back on their feet so that the system is cyclic.

Immoral? Yes. Would it work?Hell yes. Watch homelessness decrease in no time .

If you aren't already using the hopper app, I highly suggest you start..... Now!- After you get 5, 10, 15 referrals you earn money off your stay. I always go for a motel that does not have incidental/security deposit and use all of my rewards at the same time.

Btw can even do the referrals yourself up to a certain point. You don't have to put in any personal information other than a phone number for SMS verification. So far I've been able to use this for 11 nights in 2024... All completely free !!! Also I'd be happy to share information if anyone needs help getting started! A great way to get a little slice of heaven for a night, especially if your situation is anything like mine.

I am so sad and fucking depressed. I’m so alone. Why has God created me. I know he created worse beings. But better or worse it doesn’t matter. I’m in so much agony and I don’t know where to go. My heart hurts because of the love I have given to everyone else. No one ever gives me love, they just take. For some reason I still have it within me to be a good person. After all of the despair and grief and pain and sadness and depression and anger I still have the ability to be a good person. In my personal opinion based off of what I experience. Having a little knowledge is not enough and having a little wisdom is not enough. Because just when you think you have enough knowledge and wisdom you find a reason that you are lacking. How can one be content when they don’t have enough knowledge or wisdom? Shall I pursue all cultures and ideas and religions and ideologies and gain all knowledge and all wisdom. Will that ever make me feel like I am enough? Maybe I’m perfect as I am but I’m just not content with my life. I desire wealth. I desire companionship. I desire family and friendships. I desire experience and laughter and joy. I sit in a park using the public outlets once again after how many parks have I been to as a homeless man. I’m obviously not where I wanna be and I don’t think I know where to go from here. Everything I have done all these years feels like one giant shitty mistake. I wish I could just have an apartment or a van or a house where I can invite woman over for company and not have to worry about not being good enough. But I realize that woman are not the solutions to my problems as a man and even getting married is something I’m far from ready for. Imagine spending the rest of my life with a woman haha talk about co-dependency. So what do I have to do? I guess life is not as exciting as the movies or social media make it out to be. Learning to let go of what I thought I knew and mending into what should be. I’m still confused about a lot of things and haven’t quite figured out why I’m existing nor what I am actually supposed to be doing. I just know that I’m letting go of the people that I have connected with in the past because me and them obviously have differences of opinions and I don’t want any more internal conflict. Nor do I want to fight to be understood. So am I going to be alone? When will I be ready for friends? Do I even need friends? It’s kinda hard being a human when I have all of these questions and don’t know what to do for myself. What is my purpose…

Hey guys new to this group but I'm 25 m and I'll be homeless soon I'm getting kicked out of sober living because I can't pay fees anymore currently I'm located in gwinett County georgia and I'm on probation but no job currently I'm really unsure of what to do I have no family and the friends I have are out of state

My sister has been homeless for a couple years. I’m very low contact with her but I’ve been paying her cell hone bill because I’ve had a hard time letting go of worry. She doesn’t use it to talk to me so I’ve been trying to have the courage to cut her off because it’s honestly another bill that I can’t even afford.

Today she said her section 8 housing voucher for the Denver area is wanting an email from me saying I’ll agree to continue to paying her cell phone bill. What? Why is that a thing? She gave me no other info. Does anybody know why she’s asking this of me? It feels weird and I’m not doing it either way.

Thank you!

posted up in my spot, need to go take care of business but i'm very reluctant to leave my tent for an hour +, does tent theft happen alot?

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My wife ( a 5’4 thin build blonde latina girl) keeps getting attacked by homeless men to the point that she has built a mild trauma to getting approach by them. I have not personally be in person in any of her confrontations but knowing my wife she is very respectful of everyone. Seems like she has been targeted somehow to be attacked by every homeless person ever. One guy tried to punch her, another guy spat on her face, and another guy touched her without her consent. Can someone provide reasons solutions to alleviate her trauma? I always tell her to ignore the most mentally deranged homeless people cause they are seeking any bit of attention from anyone but my solution is from personal experience and not the most informed.

If you brought yourself back, what were the long-term mental health issues you developed? I'm having my first therapy session on the 8th, it's been a while. I'm just not sure how to process what I've experienced thus far. I feel like a chimp in a cage.

trying to get out of ottawa might work towards a plane ticket somewhere ..

So today I treated myself for my birthday, Baked Ziti ! This place is a hidden Gem, Yesterday I got a chef salad that was huge and delicious. So today I went back for that Baked ziti ! It must weigh 5 lbs. DELICIOUS 😋 came with a big roll and salad too , 3 days of food ..

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I have 4 months to find a place to live. I need ideas on where to find a place and how. I'm pregnant and my baby will be here in September - I am debating whether I want to raise my Child or set him up for adoption due to my shitty life situation and his absent father.

I applied for section 8 housing already but I want other viable options incase that doesn't work out

All these clothing closets never have any clothes for grown adult males mostly woman and children, or they don't have any clothes at all. I'm trying to work applications like JitJatJo and Instawork but however to get my start I need a change of clothes to look decent enough in so I can work these porter shifts. Where can I get help to get clothes in NYC? Maybe even a kind stranger that would help.

I have 3 months experience as a dishwasher 1 year experience as a housekeeper & 1 year experience as a laundry attendant but I also have ADHD so I'm the worst learner I applied at restaurants inTemecula but I never get an interview.

im(23f) not sure if this post belongs here but im completely out of options....I moved to OH in summer of '21 due to not having parents and a home. I moved in with my best friend(23f) now partner and their adopted mother(their aunt). everything was great until around 1.5 years ago. my partners adoptive mother is severely emotionally, verbally, financially, and I just found out recently bcuz it stopped when I arrived 3 years ago that their mom was physically abusive. and talks of incest as well(which she stills tries to do when im not home with my partner). my partner and I both see a therapist and have gone into details of our home life with the adoptive mother and they have now urged us to leave there immediately bcuz it has only gotten worse. but my partners adoptive mother is ruining every option we try. we tried to move in with my partners grandparents and their adoptive mother ran a smear campaign and spread so many lies about us that they dont even wabt us there anymore. my partner and I have nothing. no other family. no friends. no car. we are both severely mentally ill.( I have schizophrenia and I will not share what my partner has as it's not my right to do so. ) her adoptive mother is going to kick us out soon and we literally have nowhere to go. I make 10 cents above minimum wage working part time and my partner needs disability. our therapists are useless when it comes to helping us find resources. I don't know how anything works we don't want to be homeless due to leaving an abusive situation but it's what it will come to soon. we want to move to MI but don't know how to gwt resources in another state we don't live in. we have to leave soon. we're juat so scared. we feel stuck. we feel it'll be easier to just stay in a terrible situation until we can afford to leave. but with prices and my income? idk when we'll actually be able to leave. any advice would be helpful.

Tent, car broken down or running, a van, just a pack and a bike, what’s your home set up look like? Share some pics!

Oh my , I just checked my place in line for housing, it's like 15,000 + I'll be in my car forever 🙃

I know it would depend on the person. It's not a job for everyone, but I know lots of people need home health aides. Live-in home help. I wish there was a way to connect those people.

If you knew in a few weeks you would be homeless how did you prepare for this? Also if you just become homeless without warning, how would you of prepared if you had a few weeks notice?

So homelessness doesn't seem like it's just an unfortunate fate happening to a random person but rather like a buildup of many factors often reaching back into childhood.

Like for example:

1. Family has no wealth nor power.
2. Family is estranged and shattered into pieces
3. Person didn't learn any useful skills
4. Person has bad health
5. Person is very low on the attractiveness scale
6. Person is unwilling or unable to build a circle of supportive people/ business partners
7. Person has unsupportive, negative and toxic people as "friends"
8. Living in a ruthless, inhumane system (the west) that in fact sees homelessness as a desired effect in order to keep the wageslaves working, and therefore does nothing to improve the situation but much to worsen it.

Are there more points?

As of writing this, I'm an 18 year old boy that might be getting kicked out of my home by my parents within the next few days.

I live in Seattle, Washington. I've basically been having a lot of fights with my father over some dumb shit and I don't think I'll ever be able to get along with him because he's such an abusive piece of shit that will never see wrong in his actions even when you try to respectfully voice your disagreement. He's just so fucking insane and it brings me pain to even think about him.

And if I'm not getting kicked out then I'm probably ending it all or running away myself, because staying in this hellhole is causing me too much pain for me to want to continue.

I was an extremely sheltered person throughout my entire youth. I've never had a job, or even a bank account or know how to make one and I don't have a drivers license. I've never even been allowed to go hang out at a friend's house either. My parents never allowed me to do any of these things because they think I'll get killed or whatever if I leave the house and do normal people things. I also have very poor social skills.

Now I don't know what to do because I'm about to be living on my own. How do I apply for a job? Do I just... Idk, walk into target and ask the manager if I can work here? I don't have a bank account or know how the bank works. Where am I gonna live? I know that EBT gives you about 200 bucks monthly for food which should suffice, but I don't know how it works. I'm also asthmatic. I'm sure my homeless journey will require a lot of walking to find destinations for resources, but how am I gonna get a perscription for my medication? I'm not gonna have money for hospital bills.

I just have so much going through my head right now. My last year of highschool isn't even over yet.

What is that? What are they doing? They seem never to understand most things. Are they like 'adult humanitarian club/hobby' or fundraising?

For example, The place I've been, I met the ceo, but probably everyone else i met was not online, and i couldn't understand the site

are they putting faces to the organization? 'Transparently'? When i talk to them, it seems they're looking for their next story or something for fundraising materials or something to please their bosses.

are they 'management'? I didn't meet management mostly, but it seems they're the most and often only powerful people who are in the environment

I’m in mount Shasta and I have no clue what I’m doing as of may 1st. I tried climbing the mountain looking for mystery but found only dense thick wilderness that I couldn’t trek through. Now I’m laid up in my outdoor research bivvy wishing for a better life but knowing not a single thought passes through my brain that gives me any hope for a better tomorrow. I feel so alienated from society and I just keep losing. Life is not good. Sleep is my escape. Afraid of everything but wishing it would all come to an end. My heart has ran out of feeling and desire. I wish I could explain what’s going through my head. I don’t want to live like this. And I could only imagine myself living one way but it’s just not going to happen in my life. Last night I was roaming the city streets of Redding California with two fentanyl addicts and me myself I have never touched those kinds of drugs. Smoked some weed that’s about it. What is my life coming to and why does everything thing I do feel in vain. I believed 6 years ago looking toward the future that my life had meaning and purpose and that everything would’ve worked out. Turns out it’s the complete opposite and maybe I suffer from something chronic that I can’t diagnose because this is pain that is beyond my control and I can’t do anything about it. I have never been more alone and never felt more rejected in my life and I’m just a blur in everyone’s mind. Evil things are happening to me and I can’t do anything about it. I’ve been reading the psalms in the Bible and they give me hope and faith but it quickly dies and fades away. I say to myself that I can’t ask anyone for help because I need to fix myself and help myself but I’m not sure if anything will change. I’m tired and I have lost everything. I just don’t want to wake up anymore because it’s just too difficult and painful to go on another day. I am asking for death because it feels like a mercy to my current state of life and existence. I would never wish for anyone to be sleeping in the woods surrounded by insects and animals and the supernatural. Unless they wanted to but if I were you I would keep your place and continue working that job because you do not want this life.

Me and my family have been having trouble getting approved for a place and all our money keeps getting eaten up by these admin and app fees. Can someone recommend the most affordable hotels/ motels to stay temporarily

seems there is no way to really prepare to become homeless because if knowing you were going to become homeless well ahead of time, then could have done something before it happened. anyone else agree with this statement? seems logical but also scary at the same time, not knowing if you'll be the next person to become homeless since it can happen to most common folks anyways. just my two cents, thanks.

I'm not gonna sugar coat it. Y'all are in this group probably either because you're homeless, been homeless or care for the homeless. This is my third time being homeless. The first time was bc my family was racist and I had a black girlfriend. The second was because I wanted to fight for a life out in Los Angeles. I ended up coming home because my dad ended up getting stage 3 cancer and I was worried about him, he ended up dying and I stayed for 8 months I ended up getting my car stolen recently without insurance (from Kia boys challenge)... this time will be the first time homeless without a vehicle. I looked around and I only see shelters for people under 18, people going through domestic violence, and women. I'm a 22 yr old male. Its a bit scary to be on the road asleep although it's probably mostly all psychological. Any resources for help would be amazing. I stay in the Dallas area. Love y'all. When it comes to work experience Well... I have 4 years delivery experience, I went to tech school for I.T so I can set up networks, fix computers, and whatnot, I have handyman experience soo.. doing drywall, doors, painting homes, putting in fixtures and electrical connections, unstopping clogged drains, assessing mold , water and roof damage. Basic car repair so replacing seats, headlights, doing oil and filter, cleaning engines, replacing brakes, replacing car fuses. I can do graphic design although it's been a while so I'd have to practice a bit to get good at it again. I'm a science nerd although I lean towards quantum physics. I grew up helping family members with all that type of stuff [[for the handyman and car stuff] my dad used to be a A/C installer and installation installer. My grandpa was a car mechanic. And my uncle is a electrician.] I know how to hire contractors, do business licenses, soliciting licenses, building permits, building contracts, network via door to door/cold-calling/Google ads/ newspaper ads/ chamber of commerce/ social media advertisement, set up EIN numbers, document incidents, work with business insurance companies, search for talent, do background checks, streamline procedures, help people decide between LLC, S-Corp, Sole proprietorship, Co-ops, etc. Leveraging credit, setting up stocks - for the business - stock investment for people -I also understand government auctions, dealership auctions, business politics, setting up influencer advertisement, photo editing.. wholesale, finding leaked data, Utilizing lidar for maps, searching for gold via maps and renting /buying mining rights, recycling plastic/aluminum/ glass/ metals and turning it into stuff, Soldering, customer support, cleaning, Serving alcohol - TABC certified, I've done guided meditations for people before, I used to own a website where I taught about financial intelligence, economics, real estate, stocks, life insurance.. My problem was never getting a job, it was getting to a job. I'm homeless this time because Im not allowed to use my mom's car. Part of me regrets coming back home to care for them to be treated this way.. I gave up my dreams. Life is bleak.

There is a church on 13th and salmon, giving folks showers who are on the streets, it’s also near a youth drop in center, a clinic and a needle exchange that tests drugs. Main thing is the showers. I know how hard it is to get a nice hot shower on the streets. Thought I’d spread the word.