After 2 years in & out of homeless shelters and psychiatric hospitals, I’m finally moving into housing today.
In these two years, I’ve wanted to give up many times, but I’m glad I didn’t.
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Welp, my job as a political canvasser fired me for not collecting enough signatures. Bastards fired me on my birthday. And the shelter wants me out. So, I’m gonna file for unemployment & go back to phone sex work while I look for something else.
Case manager at the shelter sent me to the Commission on Economic Opportunity for help finding housing. Commission on Economic Opportunity gave me a list of providers of subsidized apartment & told me to come back when I find housing. All the providers of subsidized apartments require a paystub as proof of income. Which I don’t hav, because the temp job that hired me yesterday hasn’t even told me my start date yet. And round and round we go.
So it looks like I might have a temp job. It would be collecting signatures for a petition to prevent public officials from insider trading. It starts June 16th and runs for about a month. In Scranton, which is about 40 minutes away. I’d have to take the bus from Wilkes-Barre into Scranton, that would be about $3 each way. I have to pass the background check and fill out onboarding paperwork, of course. But I think I’ll have the job.
I lost my apartment two years ago and have been bouncing around without a home ever since. I’m looking for work, but I’m ph disabled and have multiple psychiatric diagnose. the shelter wants me out in less than a week, which means I’ll be out in the street. Any little bit help.
I spent all morning going to and from OVR (the office of vocational rehabilitation). They’re supposed to help disabled people find jobs, but all they did was tell me it takes 4-6 weeks to be assigned to a counselor and chase me out. I’m slowly running out of options here.
My case manager at the shelter is trying to get me into a housing program with $80 a month rent. I’m not working and don’t have $80. So, today I went up to the plasma center and tried to donate. I was told I would need a picture ID (which I have, my U. S. passport), soc security card (which, again, I have), and proof of address. BUT, I couldn’t use the shelter as my address because homeless people “are too dirty and diseased“ (the woman actually used those exact words) to donate.
So, no $80. Which means i can’t go to the housing program. Which means that in 8 days when my time at the shelter is up, I either get them to grant me an extension or Volunteers of America gives me a tent & I go into the woods to wait for death.
The system is rigged to keep hom people homeless.
I just had a very good interview for salvation army’s call center. I had good answers for all the questions they asked, the hiring manager even said so. I should hear back next week.
I filed for bankruptcy two years ago and my credit is shot. I need a loan of $2000, which I will pay back next month.
so Saturday I moved from a terrible nyc shelter to what is already a much better shelter in Wilkes-Barre, PA. this place has food, no rats or fights. the p are nice enough to let me bum cigarette. no male staff to walk in on me while I’m undressing, only women.
Moving out of NYC because I hate the shelter system here. managed to raise money for a ticket to Wilkes-Barre, PA. what can I expect as a homeless person arriving there? Will I get into a shelte?
homeless and relocating from NYC to Wilkes-Barre, PA Saturday to put myself in a better shelter system. wish me luck.