I’m glad you managed to get out of that mess. I’ve had three bouts of homelessness before, the fear of it happening again is ever-looming.
I agree with everything you said and don’t have much more to add. Just that I’m grateful you (and I) aren’t dealing with homelessness at this point in time. It sounds like you have more of an emergency fund than I do (though I’m trying!) This whole country is pay-to-play and if we lose, we just fall to the bottom without any support. Hell, even looking for low-income housing is a massive task in and of itself. Many of us have to literally win a lottery in this country in order to have a home.
People who’ve never been homeless, they don’t understand this country.
Its that simple.
You’re not a real person anymore, you’re garbage that talks for some reason, has the gall to make eye contact for some reason.
And anyone can become homeless rather quickly, if they have a run of sufficiently bad luck, untrusthworthy friends/family, just are the wrong skin color or sexual orientation, etc.
Anybody who has not experienced it is fucking delusional about what this country really is, and I mean that absolutely, doesn’t matter what your ideology or day job is.
But yeah, I had to move halfway across the country, via Greyhound, to find a place to live.
Its not impossible to do this on SSDI alone (I was very seriously injured in my run of homelessness), I’ve managed to do it, but… its extremely difficult.
There were many days I was sure would be my last.
Saw a lot of people die.
Thats my American experience: No one cares, fuck you, die.
Glad you’ve survived it as well, at least thus far.
I’m glad you managed to get out of that mess. I’ve had three bouts of homelessness before, the fear of it happening again is ever-looming.
I agree with everything you said and don’t have much more to add. Just that I’m grateful you (and I) aren’t dealing with homelessness at this point in time. It sounds like you have more of an emergency fund than I do (though I’m trying!) This whole country is pay-to-play and if we lose, we just fall to the bottom without any support. Hell, even looking for low-income housing is a massive task in and of itself. Many of us have to literally win a lottery in this country in order to have a home.
Yep yep yep.
People who’ve never been homeless, they don’t understand this country.
Its that simple.
You’re not a real person anymore, you’re garbage that talks for some reason, has the gall to make eye contact for some reason.
And anyone can become homeless rather quickly, if they have a run of sufficiently bad luck, untrusthworthy friends/family, just are the wrong skin color or sexual orientation, etc.
Anybody who has not experienced it is fucking delusional about what this country really is, and I mean that absolutely, doesn’t matter what your ideology or day job is.
But yeah, I had to move halfway across the country, via Greyhound, to find a place to live.
Its not impossible to do this on SSDI alone (I was very seriously injured in my run of homelessness), I’ve managed to do it, but… its extremely difficult.
There were many days I was sure would be my last.
Saw a lot of people die.
Thats my American experience: No one cares, fuck you, die.
Glad you’ve survived it as well, at least thus far.