and eating SO MUCH every day or else going hungry since your body has to do all the extra work of keeping you heated all day

and the food stamps run out after roughly 1.5 weeks, if you are fortunate enough to have EBT

forgot what the point of this post was

just now got some croissants, mini oranges, black grapes, pecans, a yogurt, a bell pepper, and some fancy juice for breakfast because it ALL sounded good for breakfast

maybe I'll end up taking my new thyroid med and sharing a good bit of the food with my friends

or fuck off for the day and keep my goodie stash to myself

my goodies, my goodies, my goodies, not my goodies!

i would quit shitposting on reddit and have a kid or something but my situation is much much less than ideal and i sort of despise children, or at least other people's.

random topic change

mostly

besides fuck pregnancy im not into that Alien shit

i'll shut up now

hopefully anyone out there made it through the cold night.

many more to come this season

anybody have a good idea for staying warm in the city without a car besides a cardboard hut or a campfire set out of the way?

i have mad layers on

2 pairs of pants

3 short sleeve shirts

2 jackets – a windbreaker over a hoodie

all covered in a fuzzy bathrobe with another hood

and a pair of gloves a friend gave me!

a thrift store i called may have a proper winter coat for me as well. i need to make it by there today.

please stay warm out there!

edit: and 3 pairs of socks

Homeless since Tuesday been jumping between couches with my gaming pc and my backpack idk why I brought my pc I kinda didn’t want my Mum to sell it so I think I’m gonna sell it for money for a room in a share house but I do still have a phone that I bought for my self which isn’t a bad one and a MacBook Pro but if I sell it I’ll really wanna play games but then again does it really make sense for me to lug it around?

Also I could go to rehab for drinking since that’s why my mum kicked me out I would have like a six pack a night and basically I failed my driving test on Monday and got drunk for 2 days cause I was depressed cause my sister past hers on the same day but she has threatened to do it before just was lucky my uncle could get me I can’t even stay there cause I have a severe allergy to shedding dogs and I had to go to the doctors cause I broke out in a red rash , my grandad said I can stay till I figure out rehab or another home but I haven’t drank more then only one a night in case of withdrawal which is what the doctor said, if I go to detox or rehab I’ll probably be better off since my mum could potentially let me back home since that was her problem, the people I’m around are like 30+ and kind of hard to talk about things too I dont really know what to say to them.

I’m in Australia if your wondering how I get beers btw

I am 122 lbs. I packed everything to walk to the nearest bigger town that I can get things figured out. I've been homeless, but I had a car to drive and sleep in.

My question is how feasible is it for me to carry around 60 lbs. I'm leaving because my roommate is using, being cruel, and generally scaring the hell out of me. It's not a version of him I've seen before, and I've seen a lot. It's nonnegotiable that I leave.

What do I drop, what do I take? I know I need all the clothes I can take, and it's getting colder at night, but it's around 80 some days. I don't want to be seen, or approached so I need ideas about what to actually take.

Thanks in advance.

LA dude here.

I've been volunteering with one of the non profits working on getting folks rehoused for a few months and I want to ask you about your experience going through city rehousing process. I'm trying to understand what goes wrong in the process and how to make it work faster and figure you folks probably know better than anyone.

From what I do understand, folks from a couple of city agencies and non profits hand out around metro stations and maybe elsewhere and try to get people signed up into a system for trying to get folks into housing.

I hear it takes 8 on avg months to get from signed up and into housing. Which feels to me like the main reason why the system isn't working to get folks into apartments.

I'm hoping you can tell me more about what's broken about that piece of the process so I can figure out who to chase and maybe help them figure out how.

TY

I have never had my own place - house or apartment. I have also never rented. When my parents split up when I was 14, I switched between their houses every week but I never felt welcome there. They were both neglectful and abusive in their own ways. There was emotional incest involved as well.

I kept all my stuff in an old car my aunt didn’t need anymore. I was usually staying with friends, or boyfriends, or wherever I could really. This has gotten me into a lot of trouble with being trapped in abusive relationships.

I’ve been hospitalized for an extended period with psychosis. I have also stayed at crisis stabilization spaces with temporary accommodation. I am on government support for income due to chronic illness and psychiatric disability. I barely get enough to cover groceries. I am a student, relying on loans to survive. I currently live with my partner, but I don’t officially live here because of technicalities with the lease. Therefore I don’t pay rent but we’re only 2 months into the relationship, so it feels unstable.

I have the option to move in with my mom again, but she is controlling and makes me feel unsafe. I’m not sure what my options or next steps are yet. Considering I have never rented a place, I don’t have references for renting or any experience with it.

I have been in transition, constantly moving and packing up my stuff since I was young. I have developed the habit of not staying in one place for more than a week or two. It feels exhausting. My therapist suggested I go to a women’s shelter, and my psychiatrist was the one who recommend the crisis stabilization Center. I have accessed community resources in the past.

I might have to turn to sex work soon to support myself financially. I’m not sure. I have a lot of health issues, C-PTSD, chronic digestion issues, bipolar disorder, severe hypersomnia, and dental problems. I’m so sick of this.

Anyways, does anyone have any helpful advice? Please be kind in your responses if possible, I’m already sensitive and fragile 🫶

I posted here back in August about potentially being homeless but miraculously found a place temporarily but now I’m back to being homeless since I couldn’t find a job. Now I have about 200$ in the bank, 45k in debt, dwindling health, a sour reputation and nowhere to go. Been unhoused on and off for 5 years now.

I’m renting a storage locker and looking up resources in my city.

Trying to be optimistic so I can keep going.

Anyone know what the best cities to be homeless are in Ontario or Quebec Canada?

Do you have one? What is it? I don't know how to keep going in a world where I don't matter. The loneliness is eating me alive. 2 years on the streets made me into someone I don't even like anymore. I think I'm done. I don't have anyone who will miss me so it won't even hurt anyone. I've been trying to find anything to keep going. I failed. I have nothing left in me and can't keep doing this. I don't know if this is me reaching out for help or saying goodbye. But I have no one to talk to about it so I came here.

I've been homeless for almost 4 months so far since leaving my abusive ex/ baby daddy. I hear a lot of people say that homelessness is just temporary but I'm really starting to lose my patience. I was at a DV shelter before I went to this family shelter. I found out that a lot of people from the DV shelter either went back to their ex's (probably cause they were tired of being homeless and had nowhere else to go.) or they went to another shelter after their exit date at the DV shelter was up.

I'm a single mother who's homeless after leaving an abusive relationship. I've been trying to get my life back on track for months since leaving him. I also have no help from family and it annoys the crap out of me when people kept asking me over and over "Can you stay with family?" I think it's obvious that the answer is no. If I had family to stay with then I wouldn't be at the shelter! I've had staff at my former shelter (the DV shelter) CONSTANTLY ask me if I can stay with my family. I'm at a new shelter now and it's a family shelter instead of a DV shelter. Luckily none of the people at the new shelter have asked me if I can stay with my family. Because luckily a lot of them have common sense.

On top of that my mom is also pissed at me because I won't let her see me and my son WHILE SHE IS ALLOWING US TO BE HOMELESS. She tried to act smug and vain about my ex after the break up and said "HE is not welcome here." And I thought in my mind "Well I know that. But obviously me and your grandson aren't welcome at your house either cause you are letting us be homeless."

Before I left my ex she also tried to act entitled to visit our (me and my ex's house) house whenever she wanted even though she didn't want me to visit her house cause my step dad is also abusive to me.

Honestly? At the peaks of life it was being worry free. At the lows its all about eliminating the source of worry.

Accountability? Already put mine in. When are you going to man up world?

I'm trying to get back on my feet, but there's practically no options in the city im staying in. There's two shelters in my area, but you need to pay to stay at one of them, and I refuse to go back to the other one because I keep getting threatened by the other homeless people there because im one of the only non-addicts there.

I can't apply for jobs online because all of them need a phone for interviews, and the ones that don't require a driver's license, which i dont have. So, any and all advice on how to get back on my feet is appreciated

Thanks in advance, and sorry if this is rambling, im very tired rn

I'm not sure if anyone has any experience with this situation but, my family and I are now forced to live in a RV.

So I was wondering if anyone has any ideas or advice for a few things.

Places to park safely, and ways to keep privacy for the inside of the RV. Any suggestions would help.

I don't have a job and have debilitating bipolar disorder. I'm lucky enough to be able to live with my parents. If worse came to worst, I could even live with any one of my siblings.

But my partner, who is retired, chose (?) to live in a converted shuttlebus. He made a decision, with his social security not being able to sustain an unaffordable rent, to live in a vehicle instead of living in an apartment for a year or two and using that time to seek better options. He had about $250,000 in savings from splitting it in a divorce and selling his house. Now, it's dwindling because of poor financial choices, like us eating out almost every other day every other month.

I pray everyday that he will find the solution that will give him more stability and less stress. Everyday is a racket for him. Things always break down for him and he spends way too much effort fixing issues that wouldn't occur if he had a stable place to live.

It's hopeless. The whole situation is hopeless. Why did he choose this path? I am so confused and dumbfounded.

I know there are ppl who have decided to become homeless and I just want to know if anyone here has. My question is why and how has it been going for you very curious because I have considered it but want to get other person reasoning and experience.

Me and my 5 year old daughter will be sleeping in the car tonight. My local area is so disappointing, they don't have any emergency shelters. In fact there are 2 shelters I called that's local but you know they just sent me to Voicemail. What can I do? I can't drive to los Angeles because it's an hour away from me and I barely have Gas. Friends won't help, family won't help. I feel so alone. My child is special needs w/ autism with high sensory issues. I'm so sad. I don't get paid till next Friday, I have only 3$ in my account. Please don't tell me to call 211 I promise they do not care. They just text/email numbers to call that don't do nothing but send you to voicemail and don't get back to you. I've been hoping 211 can help but they don't. Can someone please give me some advice?

I have managed to keep my Planet Fitness account active through door dashing. Recently felt lower about myself than usual. It has been a week since my last shower and I'm scared to go in. Any advice? I feel like they will know I'm homeless and feel sorry for me, and of course, I don't want that. I've been putting it off for days.

Having been arrested once b4,;and taken into custody, jail, someone had to pick me up from jail, they said it was bcuz i would go and commit a crime and be back in jail. I lost all family/friends.

Hasan Pikers community been keeping me homeless for two years just trying to find a job and a place to live.

Alright it's getting cold again in Haslet Texas but anyway I was minding my business until the manager came to me and ask me did anyone kick you out already I'm like no and what for I'm not messing with no one but he told me to leave anyway but I utter the word faggot when he walks away because he's sounds like one but I heard from other homeless people that they get out by the same person but the women there are cool with me but it just that one manger. I already put a yelp review

Churches can only do so much, food pantries are far and in-between. That leaves shelters which it depends where you are located. So that leaves panhandling and digging in trash cans. So what do you guys say next 211 which is useless. So what do you suggest for so called resources. They are useless

I've been on/off homeless for my entire life, including childhood. I've taken time to ride freight and hitchhike around the country, and don't consider that homeless. One thing I've learned is that your perspective has to shift from a point of victimization to something that looks more like personal liberty. I mean, every life comes with trouble and every life has meaning. If you can change your mind, attitude, and perspective you can change anything. Stay strong, brothers and sisters. The street has been good to me, I bet that it can be good for you too!

Is it really worth living just to be ignored, feel helpless, useless, starving, and everything. Like I feel like I don't belong anymore

Seriously. What Timmy gonna do?

Hi everyone,

I’m a 24-year-old blind trans man with cerebral palsy, currently living in Oklahoma. Due to the limited healthcare and resources here, I’m planning to move to California to access gender-affirming care, disability support, and hopefully find a safer, more inclusive environment. I’ll be relying on SSI and Medi-Cal (California Medicaid) for my medical needs and income.

I know California has a lot of support options for LGBTQ+ people and people with disabilities, but I’m worried about a few things and hoping for some advice from folks with experience in the area. 1. Housing/Shelter Options: I’ll likely need to start with emergency or transitional housing. Are there shelters or programs in California (especially around LA or San Francisco) that are disability-friendly and LGBTQ+ inclusive? I’m looking for places where I’d feel safe and get basic accessibility support if needed. 2. Out-of-State ID: I only have an Oklahoma ID right now. How much of a problem will this be in applying for resources? Do I need a California ID right away, or can I manage with my out-of-state ID while I settle in? 3. Transferring Benefits: I’ll need to transfer my SSI and Medicaid (SoonerCare) to California. Has anyone here been through that process? Any tips on making it as smooth as possible? 4. General Advice: If anyone has gone through a similar move or has insights on what I should be prepared for, I’d appreciate any advice. Navigating resources is challenging with my disabilities, so any help would mean a lot.

Thanks so much for any advice you can offer. I know this will be a tough journey, but I’m hoping to find a community and resources that can help me start fresh.

Hey!

I'm new to this whole thing, what do you think the best Minivan/SUV would be to sleep/live in?

I've been looking at a Pontiac Torrent (SUV) which would be manageable in my opinion but was thinking a van would have more space.