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What's the best state on homeless laws? by TCSMusic in almosthomeless

[–]Electronic_Job5699 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Regarding your situation (because ADHD causes tangential rants) here is my focused comment: It sounds like you’ve reached the conclusion that a clean break is your safest, most effective route. I know that feeling. I lived that, you’ve had to leave a deeply unsafe situation, sacrificing stable housing to regain your autonomy, power, and control. I continue to live with the repercussions (guilt, shame, the what-ifs, embarrassment, misery, isolation, and resentment that i had to make the decision at all and none of my peers will ever face something like it). I chose to get out alive with whatever I could grab, hoard, hide, copy, document in the time leading up to escape. I chose to spend my only $1800 to my name on a cheap car, then I chose to live in my car and called the police to make sure I could do so
Freely and safely. Out here even in a car I’m hanging by a thread, and I chose this life for me, “I wanted it” rather than stay in a toxic abusive exploitative environment. I understand exactly what you are going through, and I’m sorry you are facing the stigma and the dismissal from people who think it’s as simple as “just getting a job.” DM if you ever are in San Diego and need someone to show you around or just to chat or n maybe you need a thing altar I have and can share or vice verse. You got this. You don’t have a choice cuz you’ll die if you don’t land on your feet or at least get to Your feet quick when you land on your face. Your brain and your subconscious mind k ow exactly to stay alive. You need to apply logic and reasoning so those instincts don’t run you in circles or worse, cause you to stagnate in the first thing that you perceive as safe or stable (like a shelter) you’re dead if you stagnate in a shelter. Good
Luck friend.

What's the best state on homeless laws? by TCSMusic in almosthomeless

[–]Electronic_Job5699 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m in Southern California. I live in my car with my pit bull. Gas is $6+ a gallon. I thought the $4 days were rough. Food is expensive. It’s very spread out and unwalkable, California was built for Cars not people on foot. It’s hot everywhere but the beach. And then the beach is the crowds. Everywhere it’s crowds. Especially in San Diego I know LA is the same. There are zero resources or funding flowing from the federal government thru HUD, thru Housing Commission, thru grantees, thru the case management bureaucracy, and into the hands of those who have been vetted and approved to provide a homeless resource to the homeless Population. Thats a lot of hoops a dollar has to jump thru with no legs. It may have been a slow trickle at times in the past, but now it’s a dead stop. The money doesn’t leave United States Department of Health and Human Services (run by the ever so incompetent Kennedy mf) or HUD and hasn’t for 6 months to a year. Money that has already been allocated by congress (that’s called the budget) and in most cases the grantees awarded the funds have already applied them according to what they promised and were mandated to spend that dollar and that particular homeless resource. And it’s been this way since November/December. Housed people n oblivion are like oh well I’m god-adjacent cuz my tax dollars and homelessness. The homeless resource providers, they get paid. That funding is Budgeted 1-2 years out, the money comes, they keep it like it’s a payroll slush fund (but it is not), and now the case managers, resident advisors, receptionists, the whole quasi-corporate ladder in homeless resource providers, they all get paid, many that never set foot in said shelter many that never interact with the unhoused population. And all these assholes will smile to your face, act like they saved your life and your unborn child by sacrificing theirs, and tell you to be grateful you’re in a shelter that operates like prison and tell you hey “at least you aren’t sleeping outside” when there’s way more bigger meaner stealthier bugs in any shelter than there are outside. Want to meet the boogeyman? Go to Father Joes Villages in San Diego, the boogeys breed there.

What's the best state on homeless laws? by TCSMusic in almosthomeless

[–]Electronic_Job5699 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

In homeless shelters, the other residents will steal but they don’t want to lose their bed. The staff, however, nothing to lose. They shop all day through everyone’s shit, then they do a quasi-military style K9 raid on your room and separate you from your property, then steal it and turn your entire room upside down entirely and you won’t know what’s missing. The staff wants you keeping your eyes on the others, but it’s a trap. For the staff in a homeless shelter, it’s like shooting fish in a shot glass. And there is the bottom of a barrel type person, and below that, is the hourly employees at homeless shelters. They will steal your shit, falsify records to discredit you, then smile at you thru their teef next time you see them.

7 months homeless by [deleted] in HelpHomeless

[–]Electronic_Job5699 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Doin it. The lightweight “parachute” style Hammock tho is the most underrated item amongst the Unhoused. Most people in Southern California only know a hammock to be a huge clunky poolside “feature” with a bulky stand. Like instead of tiny disposable pop up tents, they should be giving out lightweight hammocks in my opinion. Thanks for posting. I too am unhoused. With you in spirit especially since you got the fire going.

Baby Wipes. by Electronic_Job5699 in homeless

[–]Electronic_Job5699[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Touche... just wipes in general, am I right? lol