r/housingcrisis

I am currently residing within LA and am a recipient of a section 8 voucher under HACLA and HUDVASH (I am a veteran) and their voucher based program. I have already paid my portion of the rent, but HACLA has not paid a single cent. Today I received a 3 day notice to pay rent or quit and have my lease thrown out. On the first notice of a late payment I notified property management of the fact that I am a voucher recipient and that HACLA is responsible for my rent, which they acknowledged and never followed up with further until today. HACLA is over a month behind on the rent and I do not know what to do, it is late at night and I’ve already tried contacting my case manager, but they are not available at this time. When I let my case manager know of the first notice of late payment, they reassured me that they were in contact with the housing authority and that it should be taken care of. Now I am not sure what to believe anymore and am in full panic. Is there any legal protection or other forms of help? What should I do in this situation? I have no means whatsoever to pay the balance due for the rent, and I really do not want to be evicted. Any and all help is much appreciated.

I have this working hypothesis: that being displaced and homeless (in any shape way or form) is simultaneously/paradoxically the most dehumanizing and humanizing experience that a person can live through.

It’s dehumanizing because of the tool we call money (which is assigned to give value that is agreed upon, to materials and services) is stripped from our arsenal of tools. In this regard, God** **is much the same way, just for human beings… lacking either denotes a lessened value and a remarkably stark deference to deserving bad things. It’s dehumanizing because you are exiled.

It is also humanizing: you are stripped of the ability to commit to cooperation with your society, because you’re denied this ability to play along, and you have to figure it out, alone. Humans are quite remarkable at this, at being adaptable generalist tool users.

For me, it’s been 3 years: and I saw this as a possibility as a child, so I was able to commit years to figuring it out before I became homeless. Many people I’ve come across and even helped, haven’t been as lucky as I have. Even then, I’d compare this situation to being a deceased human being living as a ghost of a person.

What I specifically do: I use the BikePacking situation to hammock-stealth-camp in urban and rural areas, anywhere I can set up this entire nomadic situation inside a tree canopy. Often, I set up within an hour, and tear it down within an hour, and set up an hour after dusk and tear it down an hour before dawn. I still work. I still socialize. And people assume the worst of me because i somehow did something to “deserve” this.

I’m sure this will sound horribly naive, but what could I do to help people in need of housing? I just read a book about this and I’m horrified at the state of the US. The conditions my countrymen live in are horrendous. But I’m not rich. What can I do?

Sorry I’m not here often but, is there anything we can do as a group to help drop the housing market?

People in the US have concerns about the housing market and lack of supply in high demand areas. Everyone agrees that more housing is needed.

Why don’t those that want more housing, build more housing? They keep waiting for something to happen but if they took control of their future by building their own housing, they’d solve their own problems.

Excuse me, English is not my first language and I don’t know if I phrased this right

lol I’m a 27(f) ftm born and raised in NYC and I haaaaate how horrible the housing market has become! For my own personal reasons (school& my mom) my credit is shot to shit, and although I’m working on repairing it, it takes time and I need to move and can’t. I’m not homeless thank God, my 3m old son and I live with family but he needs room to grow and I need space to live! I make 6 figures and still can’t find a place because of my credit situation which boggles my mind lol. What am I supposed to do? Besides the obvious fix my score. And I’m First Gen, I don’t have a guarantor:/ I just need a 1/2bd apartment until next June when we can move with his dad…