u/immenselyfucked

I have two caseworkers: one from the Veteran Affairs/HUDVASH who got me my Section 8 voucher via NYCHA, and the caseworker at my halfway house where I am currently staying.

I think the halfway caseworker is confused, he said I NEED to apply for One Shot Deal to not have my voucher "will be flagged by DHS and affected" and that if I pay out of pocket then I need to prove to DHS that I am working (I am not). DHS is the Department of Homeless Services, but the Section 8 voucher isn't even run by the DHS, CityFHEPs is (the DHS is part of DSS). I know that for CityFHEPs you need to prove you're working or whatever. I think he is confusing my voucher with CityFHEPs.

I can pay the first month rent and deposit by myself (around $7.5k), I went to college this semester and saved like $17k from the allowance that the GI bill gives veterans to go to school. Waiting for One Shot Deal is going to be another 30 days of waiting anyway, and I don't need to be dealing with 98F heat in a halfway house that's pretty unhygienic and risky to live in anyway. I already felt like I would have a heat stroke in the building when it was 91F and I forced my other housemates in our unit to put aluminum foils on their windows because I didn't need to live in the same unit as people who died from heat stroke.

It's now the end of Friday so I can't ask either my caseworkers until Monday, but wanted to ask you guys to see if my halfway caseworker is confused (he's also new) and if I should just let the leasing office at my new apartment unit know that I am paying out of pocket for the first month + deposit to move in this coming week.

Why the hell would paying for first month + deposit "flag" and affect my eligibility for Section 8? Isn't that what everyone on Section 8 vouchers do? He's wrong, right?

I've been a NEET for 5 years, living off a small amount of disability pay. I am currently homeless for like 6 months now and living in a halfway house that I only use for the bed, and I signed up for a fitness club that has a workspace and private lockers and lounge for members who pay an extra $150.

I am escaping the heat by hiding in the private lounge rather than sit at the halfway house in 90F degrees... I feel elite, bros. Every day I wash up with boutique fancy toiletries that they provide, and they have complementary bathrobes here too. I then sit in the lounge for hours in a bathrobe while doing important things on my laptop, like shitposting on 4chan and reddit.

Today I got a complementary manual stretch-massage and a skin analysis with a free facial at the spa in the building. Now I am out of the shower all fresh and robed up. Time to draw my mecha OCs for my manga...

I dont want to tell people where I am because I dont want those vanlife hipsters with remote jobs to catch on and do the same shit.

Tomorrow I hear back from the Section 8 housing authority if I get to move into the apartment I've applied for or not so I can get the fuck out of homelessness...

I am currently staying at a halfway house for the homeless in the hood with like 3 guys including this one old guy who pisses and diarrheas all over the toilet and the floor, which then fermented in the heat (we don't have AC in this unit) and you can't just get the smell out. But the bathroom isn't the only issue, it's everything else like no AC when it's over 90 degrees outside, the cigarette and weed smell from other residents smoking inside the building 24/7 even though they're not supposed to, and the hood music blasting until like 11pm outside from like multiple people trying to outvolume eachother like a bunch of cicadas, it really wore me out.

I just signed up for a membership to a fitness club that has a workspace, I can stay there to escape the heat during day time and have a place to shower that doesn't smell like an old man's asshole and fermented piss. It won't solve the sleep issues though with the noise and the shitty environment and heat at night. It's outside the hood to in a nicer area so I get to escape the general bullshit in the daytime.

I also got an assigned locker at the workspace I pay extra for so I can store my gym clothes and shoes there and some stuff like phone chargers and laptop. They even do laundry for your gym clothes as part of the membership, pretty gud.

The tour guide who was showing me around the club asked "So what do you for work?". I actually don't do shit, haven't had a full time job in like 5 years. I told her I am a grad student, which is kind of true as I got accepted to grad school for Fall (but I still need a place to stay). She doesn't have to know that I am a homeless NEET.

I am gonna be one of those jacked homeless people lmao just spend all day at the gym either drawing or shitposting at the workspace or taking group classes for weightlifting and yoga because I am unemployed and literally have nowhere else more worthwhile to go (what, back to the homeless halfway house???)

I am a homeless NEET and living in a halfway house apartment, in my own room with three other housemates. It's better than nothing, surely better than the regular homeless shelter, but the rules aren't really enforced and people still smoke weed and cigarettes indoor (in other units, not mine) and there is piss and diarrhea on the toilet seat and the bathroom floor, which ferments and the smell permeates the whole unit especially during summer. I haven't found a full time job for 5 years despite applying to places.

Summer has already started and there is no AC in my unit, and my room is boiling because this is a brick building with my room facing the sun. I felt like I was going to have a heat stroke, and definitely had heat stress. I put aluminum foils on the windows. I left and stayed in a hotel for almost a week though it's expensive and had to come back to the halfway house.

I can't shower here anymore because it smells like stale piss that gets even stronger if I turn on the shower and the steam starts filling the bathroom, even when I use cold water JFL. So I resorted to washing myself in my room inside a plastic storage container that I fill up with buckets of water from the "kitchen" sink (there is no actual cookware, just a sink and faucet and a microwave that no longer spins). This is also the only way to really stop myself from overheating inside my room and not become a sticky greasy sweaty mess. I use the same bathwater throughout the day like I am some fucking pioneer from the little house on the prairie. If I want a "real" bath instead of just cooling down, I add a dab of soap to the container of water (not rinsing off a little bit of soap is fine, that's pretty much what no-rinse bathing solutions for camping are). If I am not dunking myself in water, I wear a wet t-shirt with a fan on.

I feel like a third world villager, hauling drinking water from the grocery store because the tap water here tastes like shit compared to wealthier areas, then hauling bathwater from the to my room, on top of peeing and shitting in my room in a pot like some victorian era serf.

I am hoping to be out of this place by a month and find my own place. Summer already fucking sucks, I have a headache.

There isn't a particular reason I am sad, I just am. I am also homeless and living in temporary housing (it could be worse but it could be better) and no friends or family to talk to, but even then I didn't really FEEL sad and lonely until taking this med, and then thinking about my past and regrets as well.

I've also been struggling to sleep after week 2, so been taking THC+CBN nearly every night (I am not a regular user before this).

I've been talking to chat bots to regulate myself.

I am still waiting for that sudden "lifting of clouds" or however it is described. I've heard it can take a while for it to kick in and week 4-8 should be around the time for most people. Anytime now, come on...

That's it. I am done after being an unemployed NEET for 5 years despite having a college degree and cybersecurity job certs. The job market is apparently shit and so is the economy. I am now living in a homeless halfway house, on meds, and now nobody will hire me due to the big ass resume gap.

I am still trying to find housing using the section 8 voucher that I got this year, I only have a few months left to find a place and the place I applied to and progressed with might be falling through due to the building's ownership's tax issues. I might just take anything at this point just to keep my voucher valid and find my own private unit even if it's shittier than the unit that might fall through.

Once I secure a place with the voucher, I will be paying up to $500 a month on rent, and $900 left over from my disability. I have access to food banks now so I can supplement my grocery budget with it. I am pretty much retired (though I still want to work and make more). I am also got accepted into grad school (tuition paid for) this fall and and receiving a stipend, so I supposed that will be my "job" and income at least for the next two years.