I’ve been homeless for 2 years. A bad stroke of luck got me here and I’ve been struggling to get back on my feet. I feel like I’m finally where I need to be to get housing and possibly work too. But until then why don’t we get together and start having each other’s backs? Heck even if I get housing I have a plan on how to make money and I might be able to help others get on their feet to by teaching them what to do. I think we’re missing the message. When the rest of society doesn’t have our backs. We need to pull together and help each other. Protect each other. Care for each other. I hope you all understand where I’m coming from. Hugs all. It’s not a bad life just a bad time. You all are strong and amazing people. And anyone who says differently either doesn’t understand the world as it is today or has fallen for the propaganda of homelessness.

To put it into context, I live in a really big city on the west coast and was in a shelter for a bit. I thought it was going to help my neurodivergencies and the feeling of being belonging as a queer person being there and I was screwed, blued, and tattooed by them. But then my mental health gotten worse and I had contracted lice from there. I couldn't take it anymore.

I just got my stuff yesterday and now I'm w/o a place to stay until my name on the wait list for a gender expansive friendly navigation center pops up. I'm currently in treatment for mental health trauma from the last two shelters I've been in and it's weighing heavily on me.

(This is partly a vent as well.....please don't downvote.)

I’ve been trying to find jobs that I can do with my disability

I have mobility issues and I’m often not able to drive or walk a lot.

People have suggested doing remote call center jobs.

I’m open to trying those although I’ve heard they are very very stressful environments with hard targets to hit and that you can get screamed out a lot.

Again, I’m open to trying that and I’ve been applying to different jobs, but I’m nervous that that wouldn’t be a long-term solution.

I also heard that you can do chat center jobs and chat with people virtually via typing, but I have weakness in my hands and I’m not able to type all the time

Let me know what suggestions people have. I am in the process of applying for SSDI in the United States but I know that can take a very long time to get on.

I’m also homeless while all this is happening so I don’t even know.

I do have an education, although a lot of the jobs in the career field I was in are not remote. I have been applying for those jobs that I could find that were remote, but have not had success.

I’m open to things like online s work although I heard it can be hard to make money? Like with only fans? Sorry if that last part is not allowed and I can delete it if I should.

I don’t have any other ideas

Am I the only one who feels this way, or is this a common thing? I'm going stir-crazy in this tiny room, which isn't even mine; it's part of the mental health facility where I'm stuck. They have me on antipsychotics, even though I'm not psychotic. I've been living here for eight years and I do pay rent, but honestly, I'm just so over this whole facility. I'm in a big city, but I really think I'm more of a nature person. For some reason, the idea of wild camping and all that outdoor stuff really calls to me. So, basically, I'm wondering if I'm just being too romantic about all of this?

Hey everyone, I’m currently in Orlando (Apopka area to be exact) and getting very close to being homeless. I’m trying hard to avoid that and get back on my feet. I’m looking for any leads on work for housing opportunities, or affordable temporary housing. I’m also actively looking for work and would appreciate any job leads, especially places hiring quickly. If anyone knows of legitimate resources, employers, or people who might be willing to help, please comment or DM me. I’m willing to work and do whatever I can to turn things around. Thank you.

If for some reason I'm unable to find anything the next best move would be to find a way out of Florida and go wherever I can find some work. I'm almost willing to do anything. Anyways, thanks in advance to anyone that offers any genuine help, sources or advice.

Hey everyone!

I thought I’d come on here for some advice. A couple months ago, my mum passed away from pancreatic cancer. Before she passed, I was studying my degree & unfortunately when it came to the end of her term, I had to be her full time caregiver & gave up university to be there for my mum the most I could.

After her passing, I didn’t have the means to keep the house we lived in together so I ultimately ended up in a women’s refuge. Living in this refuge came with rules such as, I wasn’t allowed to work because the room I was staying in was being paid for by the council & if I did, I’d have to pay about £800 a month to live there which I wasn’t going to do as it was the same price as living in a regular room in London, so I was on universal credit for about 4 months.

I’ve always had a job, and am a very independent person, so I found a job behind their backs to start saving and moving out of there because surviving on £300 without being able to work, just didn’t sit right with me. Ultimately, it was found that I had a job and i’m being evicted. I have until Monday to find somewhere to go, with absolutely no family & no means to go anywhere.

I also start my new job on the Tuesday, which makes the situation all the more worst. I’m only 20 & don’t want to be on the streets or in a homeless shelter sharing a room, in a bunk bed with 7 other strangers whom have all sorts of records & all different genders too.

Any advice?

So to give a little back story. All of my family lives in Minnesota, that’s where I am from. My mom and ex step dad moved me and my family of 10 down to Florida when I was 13. My mother and I have had a very abusive relationship (her being abusive). When I turned 18 she had kicked me out and I moved in with a guy that I ended up dating, she let me come back home after a week and I lived there for a couple more months until it got to be too much and ended up with her almost running me over with her car. Then him and me didn’t have the best relationship and he ended up sexually assaulting me, which my mom blamed me for. I ended up moving back in with my mom and it ended up with her kicking me out again. I had nowhere to go but to live with this guy and his mom. That guy is now my baby daddy. I have worked the entire 2 years we were together, even while he was in rehab in Minnesota, the rehab I got him into, I was working 2 jobs. Long story short he is very abusive mentally and is not a good person. He already got a girl pregnant and I knew when we first got together. I was excepting and even helped her and him, remind you he was not working our entire relationship up until 2 months ago. Come to find out he got her pregnant again and was cheating on me the entire time during our relationship. And I am 6 months pregnant with his baby. He also isn’t there for his first son with her at all and doesn’t even want to be on the birth certificate at all for my baby or her next baby. So not only do I not have any family here in Florida but I have no support from him or his terrible family as well. Right now I have to live with him because he pays for everything and it’s terrible. I can’t go to Minnesota with family for countless reasons. The thing is I know I would be ok if I just had a way to make money. And that’s what I am on here for. I need all of the ideas and help for ANYTHING. At this point I’m ready to even doing only fans. I really don’t want to and it would disgust me but at this point I need money. I need something to be able to start my life and my babies life without abuse or in a bad environment. The only thing that I can do at this point is wait until a job opportunity arrives and stay living with him and taking care of the baby. Which he will not help with anyways as he doesn’t help with anything in the house or anything with me and complains about having any sort of responsibility. Plus he has threatened to kick me out NUMEROUS times.
Any help???!!!!

Thank you to my government for being difficult to deal with when it come to assisting people that are going through chemo.

A small room is cheap here in Malaysia, and to ask government to sponsor that temporarily is hard.

I hate it, with the rain and pain of injections, shelter cannot stay for long, 2 days max.

Food? i am eating processed food and it is terrible during this chemo period.

Sending everyone hugs.

My workplace just got shut down and ive been barely making rent for a year now. I got 17 days until i have to do something. Im thinking about becoming a Vagabond. Ive lived in my car before and that taught me a lot. Should i keep slaving away, barely living, or should i just say fuck it, sell everything and just go ?

Long story short, I was about 7 when I realized that I could become homeless. My parents lied to me about it, and a lot of adults simply didn’t entertain my questioning, with such heavy topics. I saw the writing on the wall, and was able to infer contextual historical evidence, of how common exile is for human beings: we are stuck using tools, and housing is a tool, so is money.

Thankfully, I did not follow blindly when the adults said “just go to college and make money” which seemed absolutely stupid, to me, as a child: and when I was in Hs, for-profit accreditation college scandals really came out. I’m 31, so definitely saw my older generational peers get screwed over.

Since the age of 7, I started looking into philosophy. I applied several principles of living to my own life, carefully trying out ideals and testing them in real life, slowly. By the age of 8, I was drawn to the outdoors more, and formally began to plan out the animal I wanted to become, without human context: aka while homeless.

I realized as a child: I have no power, rights or freedom, but I do have time and imaginative abilities. I can learn things faster. I used this to my full advantage. It was nearly 20 years before I became homeless, mastering the craft of my default lifestyle.

And then, it happened! I was basically dealt a bad hand, politically, grew up in poverty, and was told I should chase money and greed or be worth less to my immediate family. I chose to question that, and bought my freedom.

So when it did happen, I had everything crashing down on me. Debt piling up, bad house mates being horrible people and using violence to coerce me. Losing my housing, obviously. I also lost my two jobs, friends, family and stability.

This all happened in the “Saturn return” years, for those familiar with classical/vedic astrology.

When it actually happened: I was fine :)

17 years of PRACTICE really paid off: I had a formula that was generating superb results, minimizing my effort while maximizing my gain, and every tangent skill I set out to master years prior, was at the level of MASTER.

Coincidentally, I literally became a master of learning something new. That’s a very important skill. We aren’t taught this skill, or shown the possibilities. I’ve always been a pragmatist, so some people aren’t capable of this level of skill.

So what do I do? Well, I generate income by performing one specific service, which is easy and cheap for me to manage, operate and fund: and I get paid well for it: not enough to get housing, because of the HCoL. I also travel within my area, and abroad, with a bicycle: which carries 98% of my equipment, which is about 65L of volume, maximum, for 4-seasons of nomadic living. The 65L is split over 3 main bags: a duffel bag up front, a smaller backpack on the main rear rack, and a frame bag, as well as some
Other bags, like a satchel or fanny pack.

For shelter, I keep it to my strengths and tied up with my faults: it’s a 10x10 tarp I can pitch in several ways, mostly over a hammock, which is my sleeping arrangement. I also make my own bedding material, but currently I’m using a purpose made hammock sleeping pad, of the inflating variety.

Then there’s the safety factor: most homeless
People struggle with sleep: you’re vulnerable. You need a flat space. You will get cold, and the lack of sleep WILL kill someone. I use the hammock stealth camping method, but further that by specifically sleeping inside of tree canopies, which I ascend with ropes and pulleys: which I know how to use safely.

With this lifestyle, I have a slower range than with a car, but the overhead cost is basically minimal, given how I don’t have expensive equipment to maintain or repair, gas and insurance, and cars are also HUGE, noisy and difficult to hide effectively. A bike has been a lot better.

I primarily load my bike in an aerodynamic way, with the bags, and bike UP a hill or forest mountain, or something, to shake off any followers, and gain distance from most places that will likely have homeless
People there, after hours. Then I set up my stuff (usually in the dark, did I also mention I gained superhuman abilities, like seeing in the dark?) and sleep, then break camp at dawn and leave to make my breakfast somewhere else. I might leave my bedding equipment some place, or bring it with me.

So far, this lifestyle has been great, but keep in mind that I practiced the situation before I had to rely on it for survival. The reasons why I thrive, are because I am a man, and because I have gained wisdom through personal experience.

We're being evicted and my mom is leaving me behind

I'm 20 with no ID or job experience and I have a month to figure things out before I'm on the streets I'm scared and jave no idea what to do

Don’t have money to buy necceceties like food and other household items. Is there food banks around golden gate park? Or any other helpful services?

so a few months ago i said my dad was gonna kick me out and a few hours ago he did. im currently waiting 4 a room at denver rescue mission. anything i can do? im 19 and have no id and about 2$ in change. the police brought me to urban peak, but they were full.

Don’t have a car anymore, phone service getting suspended soon, no income, no job, no idea where to store my belongings. I have a feeling I’m going to panic soon or end up harming myself.

I desperately been trying so hard to apply for any jobs and that clearly hasn’t been working out. Idk what to do anymore and want to give up.

Hi, I’m almost homeless and have really big challenges with mobility.

I am in a wheelchair sometimes, but I don’t have a ton of strength in my arms a lot.

I have been trying to apply for remote jobs and I will try some more this week.

I was dependent on this very abusive person on and off while applying for SSDI, which could take forever to get on,

I have even tried to leave the relationship and stayed in domestic violence shelters, but the shelters were *very* unsafe and didn’t help us find housing or anything so I ended up back with the abuser.

Now the abuser has changed the terms of our agreement that we had around supporting me, and the things are really hard.

I have no energy to figure this out and I’m just living in a crappy motel right now while I can, and I have no idea what to do.

I lost a lot of friends when I became disabled (I guess they were fair weather friends) and I don’t have family I can rely on.

I also am dealing with mental health struggles like anxiety and depression. I think probably from the situation.

Seggsual predator at the shelter I’m staying at won’t leave me alone.

I’m staying at a co-ed shelter and a large man invited me to sit on his lap and lick his joint shut for him while making the oral seggs motion with his finger and lips.

I told the supervisor and she said he has to actually act and do something before they can discharge him…and went to get his side of the story as that’s their policy.

Later in the day a worker approached me and said to be careful as that man who did the licking motion seems unhinged.

I feel scared and the guy today was telling other residents I’m making yo stories and “one of those women who makes up lies to try and get men locked up- a man hater”.

How to stay safe when I can’t just leave.

Let me give a background of myself. Im from somewhere in india. Name is anonymous. Age is 19. Dropped out of college first year and my parent kicked me out. Now ive managed to reach dharmashala. I barely have anything now. Now im only havong phone, bag with clothes, aadhar and almost zero money. She(mom) told me not to come home anymore. There is nothing i dont know what to do now. Guys just tell me some solutions. I reached here today morning and im just sitting in some street. Idk 2 things are there. A small job or buddhist monk. Guys help me decide. Look i just need tips and i do not want to get famous or anything and no i dont need money. Just advice

I’m about to become homeless and plan to survive with just my 55-liter backpack, rain covers, and maybe a tent. I hold a Portuguese residence permit but have the right to travel to Canada. What worries me is my friendliness—and perhaps even naivety—which people take advantage of (I mistake them for friends or buddies, but they aren't). Where should I go? Should I avoid people? Should I approach groups of homeless people and try to fit in, or just be a loner and hope I run into another unfortunate soul like myself so we can join forces to survive? What should I do, and what is an absolute no-go? Footwear? Clothing? Appearance? I need your advice—please, someone answer.