r/almosthomeless

Please point me in the right direction if this is the wrong subreddit.

Mom is disabled and gets $1000 a month. She was living with grandma with dementia but she is now having to go into a home as she has become violent.

I’ve been trying to help mom find additional resources outside of Medi-Cal and SNAP.

Everywhere I have been calling, they don’t have case workers for her. They don’t have subsidized housing. Section 8 has been closed for almost a decade. It seems like everywhere I call is just another dead end. I can’t figure out what is going to be next. I’m trying to prevent her being homeless. I’m not currently in CA and moving her in the future may be a possibility, but it is going to take planning.

Anyone have any tips or resources that I may be missing?

I live up in New Brunswick. And got kicked out of my mom's house. I've been staying at an RV but I have to vacate in two weeks. I likely will be on the streets of Fredericton NB in a couple weeks. If the winter doesn't do me in the feeling of overwhelming crushing hopelessness probably will. No one is replying to my offers for renting. No family or friends I can stay with. Is there anything I can do? Because I've gotten to the point where I feel like the best thing for me is to go out on my own terms. To not be a burden on others. To not have to face the horrific winters here homeless. All I got is a cheque for $900 every month. Which I am so grateful for, however it's nowhere near enough to live in Fredericton. I don't even have a car I can stay in, no licence or highschool diploma, am I screwed? Have I pulled my head out of my ass too late? I don't even know why I'm writing this to be honest. I think I just want to hear another's voice. Loneliness is such a horrible feeling.

My husband ran to Kroger last night to grab a few things. It was almost 9 o'clock so about an hour before close. He walked by the hot chicken display and the deli worker told him to grab some and to take as much as he wanted because they were going to throw it away anyway. I have shopped there for years and I never knew that was a thing.

He came home with 2 whole rotisserie chickens, 4 boxes of 8 piece fried chicken and a ton of olives. There was so much we gave some away to a friend. The chicken was still hot from the warming table. I'm sure not all stores do this but its worth asking them what they do with the leftover food at the end of the night.

I think that more people need to try to use their existing network to avoid homelessness or to build a new network if you don’t have one.

I know it’s hard, but you can even just hop on online and meet up groups or something and try to meet new people

And if you’re trying to say you’re an introvert and you don’t do that, get over it, this is how people get help and get out of bad situations is usually through others.

Also, I’m sorry but a lot of homeless people do end up trying to scam others and this makes it harder for them to get help in the future. If you have a substance abuse issue, get it treated. Don’t scam people or it’s gonna be more difficult for you.

I’m 19 years old my house with my mom is being sold and I have a month to move out I just got a job which is 15 hourly which is still not enough to live on my own everything in the area is around 1500 plus I can find somewhere for 1000 w one bed I don’t have anyone to roommate with but I have to find someone because I have no credit or at least find someone to sign with me so I’m able to get accepted for the lease. What should I do how can I find a roommate or is there anywhere I can ask for help I’m really stuck right now on what I can do or what I should do any advice is helpful

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myself am not homeless. Various times in my life I have been on the brink. I grew up on govt assistance and in a poor abusive family, bounced around living with family in my teens, and then had a bad gambling addiction in my early 20s that about took me down in life. Since like 14-15 it’s been living with others, sleeping in a sunroom, on the couch, being treated like shit for even being there. Mental health issues, developmental issues, having bad teeth…don’t wish it on anyone really.

Now I have my own place, and a little bit of savings, but I’m fucked up. I might need a kidney surgery costing a few grand, so it made me think well now you’ll be behind. I only make a little over 40k, but have a cheap apartment under 1k. My brain keeps telling me “ after this lease, you’ll be homeless as fuck” I’ve been on the fringes since I became an adult so no true friends, support system. How do I snap out of this and be positive?

I ask this Reddit because it is so hard to find people who can relate to this feeling and this emptiness/sadness. Thank you for your input and god bless

How do you start over with no money, no family or friends.. literally no one. :( I have 4 cats as well. I just need a little help. Like a car at least and I got nothing to give or to barter with. I just feel so hopeless and I want to just give up. .LIKE IDK WHAT TO DO OT WHERE TO START. IT ALL JUST SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE PLEASE HELP

I recently became homeless a month ago but I’ve had a roof over my head whether it be camping, my car or a hotel. With the heat, sleeping in my car is the last thing I want to do in top of finding a place to park.

Without going into crazy details, I’ve made more money the past month than I have since I lost my job. Close to 1k a week. But it’s all gone towards food, gas and hotels.

I wake up every morning with maybe $10 to my name.

How do I find a consistent roof over my head, and still make money?

I’ve been putting in 10 hour days doing DoorDash just to survive and the stress is really getting to me. I’m also worried about my car breaking down, even a flat tire.

I know how to find a job, but the stress of working a job and still wondering how I’ll have money to have a place to sleep is breaking me.

Any advice is welcomed

Hi, I'm disabled. I have psychotic bipolar. I take long-acting injections of medication for many years now. The medication makes me diabetic, an obese as a result. I have to take it or else I will deteriorate mentally so it's not an option to go off it. My knees are bad because of the excess weight. It's hard to work because of my mental symptoms. I am wondering if someone could give me some pointers or something because I can't work and they're cutting off my disability soon. I'm a woman. I can't do s_x work because the medication makes it so that my parts are dry all the time. I need advice.

hi, i need a place to stay and quickly while i save up for a room or anything small. i live in Brooklyn i have a few things but plan to pack lightly. i could use any ideas i’m considering spaces like ali forney, they take walkins and i could talk to a case worker. i have a few friends i may ask to spend a night or so//use their showers. I dont want to be a burden though... Part of me is really scared i’ve just never been on my own before like this. wish me luck

Anyone have any ideas on what to do when you’re starving?

Got this settlement from one of my accidents when a car hit me on my bike and because of that they stopped my disability which I needed and idk what I’m gonna do I’m freaking starving and noo money and my gf and and I fight so much to where it scares me knowing I have nowhere to go and no income now I wanna give up

A friend of mine in Austin Texas suddenly has nowhere to stay with 2 cats and is currently out of money is there anywhere someone in such a situation can stay or any advice that can be given on what to do?

Hello I am in New York 22yrs old currently unemployed single
Male I know what I’m about to say sounds crazy but fck it I need to leave nyc all I ask is can someone tell me
Which states could I be homeless
And receive
Services as in homeless
shelter to get back on my feet and job esc
That’s all I ask for advice I want to leave soon !!! Please don’t try to tell me about if it’s a good decision or not I am asking what I’m asking ok not as far the states I’m not to picky just need to leave NYC thanks and have a blessed day not sure how long I will leave this post up but I need this advice right now so I will be checking in daily

I honestly don't know what to do anymore.

I lost my job recently and then I broke up with my boyfriend. On top of that, I also lost someone who was very close to me, someone I really thought would always have my back.

Now I feel completely alone.

I don't have family that I can rely on or anyone who can financially support me. Things have gotten so bad that I have slept hungry for two days.

I'm trying to look for a job and figure things out, but honestly, I'm so tired. I wake up and I don't even know what I'm going to do that day or where my next meal is going to come from.The landlord is on my neck too.

I'm just so done with everything right now. I feel like I've lost so much in such a short time and I don't know how to get myself back up.

Has anyone here ever been in a situation like this? Lost their job, had no one to fall back on, struggled to even afford food, and felt completely hopeless?

How did you get through it? What did you do to survive and eventually get back on your feet?

I don't really need someone to tell me to stay positive. I just want to hear from someone who has been here and made it out alive.

If you know any job or your company hiring, please refer me .

Thank you for reading through this, because of you, someone has listened

Hi , I don’t really know how to start this snd I am really really sorry for the long note so I’m just gonna ask if anyone knows where to get free food or any type of work at all ? I am not trying to have a sob story or anything but my situation is I just turned 18 and had to leave my dads house because of abuse, I am still going to high school and now I live with my mum but she’s extremely unwell physically and mentally and is on drugs and extremely poor, there is very little food or water in the house and i don’t have a job, applied to 100+ since 2024 but only 4 or 5 interviews and no luck. I usually go to school hungry every day and don’t get good grades and struggle a lot at school. I don’t have any body to help me and I was just wondering if anyone knows where to get food or work or anything that might help me ? Thanks 🙏

I (20F) have a younger cousin (18F) who lives in Florida and is currently faceing homelessness.

I live in CT and am in college currently and dont have much of a way to help her. For back story my little cousin has always had a bit of trouble behaving as a kid due to copying her own mother's behavior and having a very unstable upbringing they also didn't have a stable housing situation growing up so they moved states alot as a kid my little cousin mother whould not be willing to deal with her self destructive outbursts when she became a pre teen to late teenager so she whould send my baby cousin off to mutiple different mental facilities where she spent most of her teens.

As of late she's been doing really well she lerned how to drive(no car yet), got her own place, got her own job and was doing pretty well by herself.

Though in the time span of one month her girlfriend randomly broke up with her, she lost her job and therefore can't pay rent and has gotten into a physical fight with her mom due to an argument where her mother spent a night drunk in the forest leaving my cousin to have to babysit her two half siblings without knowing were her mother was and spent two days in prison after the altercation with a 150$ bond (she's out now)

I was wondering if anyone on this subreddit would know of any youth programs or youth housing places near holiday Florida that she chould take advantage of. Any information whould be very helpful

Thank you

I just received a job offer, right when I was getting desperate and would start on Wednesday, but that is not enough time for me to come up with the rent money.

I scheduled a payment arrangement, where the first payment was due last Friday, so I think they’ll send me an eviction notice shortly since I haven’t paid it and told me it was the last time they’d work with a payment arrangement.

I recently moved back home and I’m basically starting over in the childhood home I grew up in. The house had been sitting abandoned for years, so when I came back, there was a lot wrong with it and a lot that needed to be repaired. I’ve been slowly trying to bring it back to life and make it feel like a home again.
My boyfriend lives with me and has been helping me with the house, which I’m grateful for, but financially I’m struggling to make the repairs anywhere near as quickly as I’d like. Right now I’m only working part time, and I’ve been looking for something better, but there just doesn’t seem to be much around here that pays enough.
The weird part is that on paper I’m probably in a better position than a lot of people. The house is paid off, I have a paid-off truck, and I really don’t have many major bills. But my income is so low right now that I’m barely keeping the utilities paid, and I can’t even comfortably afford insurance on my truck. Then every time I get a little money ahead, the house needs something else.
The house has four bedrooms, so I’ve seriously been considering renting out the other two rooms. The extra income could make a huge difference. It could cover the utilities, let me insure my truck again, and actually give me some money to put toward fixing the house instead of constantly choosing which problem gets dealt with first.
What worries me is giving up my privacy and, more importantly, inviting the wrong person into my home. This isn’t an investment property to me. It’s my childhood home, and after everything it took to come back and start rebuilding it, I’m nervous about having strangers living here. A good roommate could make life dramatically easier, but a bad roommate could turn the one stable thing I have into another source of stress.
Has anyone here been in a similar situation where you had a house or extra rooms but didn’t really have the income to maintain everything on your own? Did renting rooms actually help you get ahead, or did the loss of privacy and roommate problems make it not worth it?
If you did it, I’d especially like to hear how you screened people and what you wish you had known beforehand. I’m trying to figure out whether renting the rooms is a smart way to use what I have or something I’m going to regret.