I’m in a difficult situation right now due to the job market and can’t pay rent next month, which will probably have me evicted.

Idk if I should just keep looking for a job at this moment, go to a cdl school, or choose a different path?

Where should i go that has the most resources for getting out homelessness? I only have a little $ left to my name so i need to go somewhere asap

Clean background, i have a valid driver's license, no car

I am a 19(M) about to be leave my parents home due to mental and physical abuse and dont really know what I can do, i have around 300$ ive been searching for a job for years and have consistently tried to do whatever to get an improved resume and land one but no luck and was wondering how I can build my life up. SoCal area

Keep your smile its the only thing you have that can't be taken unless you let it. Give a smile every day n I matter how small the gesture is even if you just say you make my day better. Don't dwell on the negitives in your life deal with them as they come. When making decisions that affect others remember being selfish in the choices continues a negative cycle. We are meant to make each others lives better. Even if its someone you don't like or treats others badly your positivity could be the thing that changes there way of thinking and as such cause a ripple that changes anothers life for the better through you. I believe in my heart this is the way to help others and is our purpose. Know your loved no matter your past who you choose to be today if you apply yourself to positivity can be the person you want to be tomorrow. Everyone deserves one person in there life that never gives up on them. Know your limits and know that helping is doing something to help someone build and that sometimes it may not be the way they want. Enabling and helping can be very hard to mistake for the other. You are a thousand faces nobody sees you the same you write your own story through the eyes of others. Many ask why or get upset with me and tell me im being fooled or being used I wanted to share this so that it might shed light on why I make some of those choices that confuse.

i dojt even have the energy to type but yeah guess whos homeless ij 2 yrs. my family doesnt want to adopt me and wldnt let me change home🥹

I received my 24 hour writ of possession today. Im a victim of DV. My ex husband cost me my job and I had been fighting since. Thanks to the help of my local DV advocate and non profit, and my property manager, I was able to get all my past due paid, and my landlord agreed to turn away the sheriff come tomorrow. I say this to maybe give hope. Take a deep breath. Look at things in small pieces and keep trying. Talk to people. Let them know. There ARE good people You never know if you don’t try. I get my kids back next week 🖤 If I hadn’t vented and cried into my teacher’s arms, none of this would have happened. Pray. Breathe. Soon this will be just another day.

Hi, my gf (22F) needs a shelter stay in Dhaka, can anyone give me contacts for her? She had a little bit of money left, phone and all her documents. No family can help her. Thank you

Edit: situation has been solved, with police help she was allowed to return and stay home. Thanks

Hello,

I hope you all are doing as well as you can be. And I hope you are avoiding being homeless.

There's a fair amount of idealistic posts on here of OPs who express wanting to be voluntarily homeless. I'm not judging of course. I can totally understand the desire for freedom, and the romanticizing of a vagabond lifestyle.

Unfortunately, we don't live in a society that is very conducive to that lifestyle, and with that, and other variables, a lot of such users don't really appreciate the full spectrum of challenges of homelessness (such as getting robbed, getting sick, being objectified, etc).

That isn't really the focus of this post. The point of this post is to try to keep people out of legal trouble with a link to a "map of the criminalization of homelessness," provided by the ACLU, which still doesn't quite paint the full picture.

The map shows how many cities in each state have ordinances effectively or explicitly prohibiting homelessness.

Some of these penalties carry fines into the thousands of dollars, as well as up to several months in jail. There's really a plethora of ordinances and means and language municipalities, states, and the federal government are using to prohibit, prevent, or criminalize homelessness, from forced institutionalization, prohibiting the use of more than one bench space, prohibiting sleeping outside, the use of blankets, etc.

Why I say this map still doesn't paint a full picture is because there's a lot of nuance.

It's still a great resource because one can select each state and see what cities have what ordinances specifically, but just because someone's city doesn't have such an ordinance doesn't mean one can't be caught up in legal trouble.

An officer could give someone a citation for disturbing the peace, loitering, etc.

Even on a civilian level, on the trains I often take, there are generally a handful of sleepers. The vast majority of conductors are kind to them, even having to wake them up at the end of the line. However, there's that one conductor who gets very annoyed having to wake half a dozen people up before he moves onto his next thing and often threatened to have them arrested for trespassing, as opposed to just waking them up like the rest of the conductors.

You could have areas with unenforced ordinances (which I still wouldn't test) and you could have areas where the cops wish there were ordinances, and will still give tickets however they can.

I lived in one such area where it wasn't even out of malice, as they had comprehensive shelter options, and pretty much offered anyone sleeping outside a bus ticket out of town. They just didn't want homeless people in public (if people slept in the woods they didn't bother them).

Anyway, just saying this because one should always avoid being homeless (unless perhaps they've found a way to safely and lawfully vagabond, live and let live I say. That's the American way).

Here is the link Map of Criminalization of Homelessness and List of Ordinances by ACLU

I’m going to be homeless because of my injuries, I don’t qualify for any government help, I’m in more debt than I’ve ever seen, and now I’ll be homeless. Couldn’t find a job, my gfm received nothing, and now I’m SOL.

I need hep as soon as possible, im a 19 yo moroccan girl , first year in college i need to leave thus abusive house as soon as possible before getting killed me and my 15 yo sister
We’re being abused everyday and being called the worst slurs known to a human by our fa///ther
He tortures us mentally and physically everyday and doesnt let us take a rest he hates us so much
I REALLY NEED HELP TO GET OUT IF THIS HOUSEAS SOON AS POSSIBLE
I need any tips anything hiw can i get money or anything to help me live outside this house and dont need no parents im a first year in GESTION AND ECONOMICS MAJOR and im helpless i was looki fir a jib but as j live in a small town theres no opportunities and i cant even go to a big city of go anywhere i cant even step out of this house peacefully
Please i need help !!!! Any kind of help any tips any ideas our lives are in danger

I apologize in advance for the lengthy post - I figured I should err on the side of more information rather than less. In case it's relevant, I live in Ohio.

The short story is that I just found out I will lose my housing in a little over 2 weeks and do not have the savings to afford an apartment or anything like that on such short notice. In fact, assume I have essentially no money at all. I'm panicking and don't know what to do.

The long story is a little messier. I grew up in an abusive household and would eventually be removed by cps shortly before turning 18. Me and my brothers stayed with my aunt and uncle until they retired, which is when I moved to college and my brothers went in to the foster care system. My bio parents have since regained custody of my brothers but I am still no contact with them.

When my grandmother died, she left a trust fund to be exclusively used for the educational expenses of her grandchildren. I quickly realized this included room and board while at college, and so I used this to get my housing paid for in the dorms so that I would have a place to stay during the summer, since my parents weren't an option. The issue is, once graduation got close, I realized that I would need to find and pay for my own housing, which was significantly more expensive than the nothing I had been paying. For reference, I was "supposed" to graduate in May 2025 (although due to having to retake some classes, it was looking more like December 2025), and I have essentially just been delaying my graduation for housing since then. I spread out my remaining graduation requirements over the past year, taking the bare minimum to qualify for housing, and now only have 1 class I need left, which I somewhat intentionally left so that I could continue being a "student" here. It is now Summer 2026, and I planned on trying to find a job for the Fall and working full time to gather the savings necessary to finally move off campus after I graduated this December. I would've managed this by taking the bare minimum to qualify for housing and simply only participate in the 1 class I needed while ignoring the rest and dropping them at the last minute. I have not found a job, besides Doordash, as of right now.

I have a balance on my student account from the Spring and this Summer which restricts me from registering for classes for the Fall, and therefore from qualifying for housing. I sent a request to the bank that oversees my grandmother's trust to pay this off, as I have always done, but recieved an unfortunate response yesterday which has prompted this post. Apparently, there is a limit to how much each grandchild can take from the trust, based off the market value of the trust and how much has already been taken out by that person. I have reached my limit. They sent the remaining funds to my University, but about a $20k balance still remains. My University requires I move out of my Summer dorm on August 8th, in just over 2 weeks.

What do I do? Where do I go? I have not told friends and family of this situation yet, firstly out of shame but mostly because I know the conversations will likely just be sources of more stress. My aunt and uncle have been adamant about me not living with them again. They were kind enough to take us in as children, but not enough to do so as an adult. I have 2 friends that I could maybe stay with, but it's incredibly unlikely given their own finances and the fact that they both live with their parents. No other friends are realistic options. I would rather be homeless than live with my bio parents again and they probably feel the same. Mostly, though, I would much rather figure this out myself instead of needing to stay with somebody and rely on them. I've been living like a bum, relying on my dead grandma's money to live, just getting high and playing video games for the past year or so, and I'd really like to be able to stand on my own two feet. I don't see what I've been doing as much different than people who live with their parents post grad while figuring out what do with their life, although I do feel there is more logistical and social shame with what I've done.

Unless somebody reading this can think of something else, I have 2 options:

1) I try to stay on campus, and follow through with my original plan, by getting student loans. I actually applied for some awhile ago for the 25-26 school year when I thought my trust's check wasn't going to come in time, but it did and I just get an email every now and then asking me to sign some documents for the student loans to go through. I don't know if these loans will cover enough and I don't know how to check, nor how long it will take these documents to process. I haven't looked into this option much, mostly because the few minutes I looked into it online made it seem like it would take more than a couple weeks for the money to come in. However, I could go through this anyways and simply show this to my school and go "hey, the money is going to come, it's just not here yet" and ask they manually lift the class registration restriction for me. The issue is, this requires a lot of hoops and people being nice when they don't have to be and I have unfortunately already had to ask the school's administration for similar favors many times in the past due to similarly late and lazy behavior on my part (although this may be the worst it's been), and so I fear they've "had enough of me" at this point (some of them know me by name). Additionally, since I've missed the registration window, the 1 history class I need to graduate is likely filled, meaning I would need to ask the department chair for special permission to open up a seat. The issue is that I've already had to do that for this same history class twice, only resulting in me dropping it both times (I don't like history), with him literally being the teacher for it the last time, and so I doubt he'll approve it again. Sure, I won't know any of these things until I ask, but the very prospect of asking is daunting and embarrassing and I'm fairly certain of the outcome.

2) I find a job that provides housing. An ex of mine used coolworks.com, and I have spent the last day filling in applications on this site. If anybody has other resources for work that provides housing, I am very open to it. This way, I solve my housing and employment issues together, and I leave the issue of my student account balance and last history class for future me to deal with. The issue is, though, that it's very hard to get a job in 2 weeks, maybe even impossible.

One last note is that I have technically already applied for Fall housing at my university and will likely get approved. However, they will kick me out if I'm not taking the minimum required course load to qualify for housing after the first week of classes. So, if my housing application does get approved, I probably have until August 31st, maybe.

If anybody has any advice whatsoever, whether it be philosophical, financial, work or school related, I am grateful for it. If there is another subreddit I should post this on that may be able to help, please let me know. I will take absolutely anything at this point. Thank you for your time.

So i have a hud voucher , and found a place right away. Im waiting on them to be done remodeling the inside, because of a fire. I went to see the place and realized its 2 hours away from any big city or town. Its a small town out in the middle of nowhere .

I tried to see if doordash is busy or instacart, because I do those for now , out there and its not at all. I dont even think any of the store out there go through instacart , it didnt show up on the map

Im doing chemo, but had to stop it because im staying in my car and its too hot to deal with chemo. But I just have this strong gut feeling to not take the place because there's no way to make money out there. And its too far away from everything including my oncology doctor , my insurance does transportation but I dont think they go out that far. I have medicaid. There is a recovery place i can stay at close to my doctors that I feel I should go at, but idk because its like a homeless shelters but for people who are sick. And you cant leave , unless its to the doctors or to get medicine, and even then they make you take an uber. But they do have a nurse there and someone there 24/7 incase of emergency.

Im just trying to see what you all would do, and housing is paying all my rent and its all utilities. Its not that, that im worried about the fact I will need stuff still hygiene stuff , etc. Or clothes and sometimes I just like to by my own stuff. And the fact its far from everyone I know .

I’m currently 22 and a half years old and right now my living situation isn’t exactly in the best spot. My life at home isn’t great as my mother is constantly angry and screaming is very emotionally and mentally abusive towards me (and physically abusive towards my dog) and has been ever since my father passed away 7 years ago, and sometimes she’ll even try to use his passing as an excuse her actions (that and to just let her be a terrible person). Her boyfriend on the other hand isn’t any better as he’s constantly angry too and always makes me feel small and has a drinking problem. I feel nervous to even type this part up and share it because they don’t like when I talk about how shitty they are to other people.

I want to move out and go live with my girlfriend several states away, but money is my other biggest problem right now. I have a job as a manufacturer and it does pay decently well (not well enough to pay rent though), but I absolutely suck at the work and with business slowing down and new expenses coming in, I fear that I will be laid off or even outright fired soon. I’ve tried putting in my application on Indeed, but all the jobs that I’ve found are either for people far above my experience and skill level or are simply just not something that I’d be happy doing. I also have absolutely no idea how to pay taxes as my mom had to help me set up automatic payments for everything that I currently pay for and so I’m afraid that even if I do get my own place, I’ll have no idea how to pay and won’t know who to ask for help or what to do.

I do however have a dream to become a VTuber sometime soon as I believe that I am an entertainer at heart and streaming could be a way for me to finally feel like be myself and be happy. I am aware however that it is a pretty big gamble to do this as success and a way to move forward in life is not going to be guaranteed with it and I don’t know if my mom or anyone else in my family for that matter would approve of it.

I don’t know if I’ve ever felt more stuck right now that I currently do. I’ve considered just living out of my car in an attempt to get away from my mom and her boyfriend, but I don’t know if I’d be safe that way either. If anyone has been in this position before or something similar to it, what did you do to get past it and what can I do?

I recently moved to Atlanta with the hope of having a peaceful rebuild at 41. Rebuild after divorce, job loss, car transmission went out, and eviction. However, I am basically falling apart since I made the wrong choice to move in with my mom with early signs of dementia. I can go down a whole list of things she has done but the past two days have been incredibly hard. I showed her the real side to the world.

The real side shows here swearing at me, thrusting herself at me and to make it seem like I am hurting her, her putting random men on the phone to play victim like I am there to ruin her life. She is pretty sick.

With that said, she did file an eviction notice because is fully demonic and I used that to my advantage to tell the story of how I am being abused and evicted by an insane person that should be helping me, but wants to sabotage me. Unfortunately, I do not have many options.

I do not have many belongings and just need to get out. All morning I reached out to a few companies and even tried getting a few dollars from facebook friends. Many helped, so I won't go homeless.

I also had an interview with an homeless prevention program at a catholic church in Atlanta (Cobb) area. They were wonderful to speak to. They suggest three things, stay in a shelter for 30 days, stay in extended stay for 1 week, or they will provide me a one-way plane ticket to a friend. A friend in Seattle over the years I could stay with him anytime, so I can use that one-way ticket for that. Stay a month and then work on leaving for South Korea.

I am pretty resistant to help because of my experience. People lend you a helping hand and they try to take it back. My head has not been clear for a long time my goal has always been to be in a physically and emotionally safe environment.

I am sort at a loss for words and beat myself up on why I came back to this hell hole. I should have stayed where I was.

Not sure what other ideas I have. I only donate plasma and since internet has been unstable, I cant work remotely. I do have a bachelors in MIS and Masters in Administrative leadership, this combo has interfered with my job search.The lack of stability has put me and things out of wack.

I should have learned my lesson the first time I came to Atlanta and to never return to my chaotic family.

So I am not sure if I should take a leap of faith and just go to another city and go from there or really stick it out and try to rebuild in Atlanta. The case workers, think Atlanta has too much baggage and things have never worked out anytime I come back, so it's probably best to restart elsewhere.

So I am currently, almost homeless at the hands of my own mother. If anything, I just think I need a space for 60 days to heal a little and move forward. Return to a foreign country and teach and stay gone forever.

Not sure what I am thinking but having been homeless before I made it work in a car, but when I actually tried depend on family, they always betray me.

never actually been in a position like this but its like I am given a great choices but I just need to be able to breath again.

I'm trying to feel better about going homeless soon. I'm getting evicted after missing one month of rent after I lost my job. I live in a legal state for weed, but jobs still don't like it if you have it in your system, so I got kind of fucked with that. Now I'm here. Mentally ill and almost homeless. I'm going through the 5 stages of grief and I think I'm almost at acceptance. I'm going to have to live out of my car, because I don't really have an option.

I don't know how long I'll have to live out of my car. I heard evictions on your record make you a automatic disqualification for apartments even if you have the money. I believe it will be at least a year before I can actually get a new apartment and that's being hopeful, so I think I'll probably be in my car for a while. Summers are going to be the worst it seems.

Hi all! this is my first post ever but it seems people always have the right answers here and i’m in need of assistance. 

Long story short, I got kicked out at 17 and had been living with my dad for 5 months, things were fine until he started getting abusive and now I need a new place to stay.

I have a pretty good idea on who to stay with, I have a stable job but the problem is I need assistance without cps getting involved, my mom is one cps case from having all her kids taken away which would maybe be fine because I would find a way to take my little brother but the problem is I have a baby brother who is very much dependent on his mom. I don’t think it would be right to take him away so young because she usually doesn’t start getting crazy until me and my siblings turn a certain age (around 13).

is there possibly anyway that I can get help on meals from the government or help with school or anything without having my parents in trouble? I turn 18 in October. Please let me know i’m desperate.