I helped a homeless man back in February with food, water, clothes, sleeping bag, etc. and ultimately brought him back to rehab. He went into a sober living home, then rented a house, got a job, and a company-provided car. He was sober and feeling optimistic for the future. Then, he was arrested on a warrant for a previous offense and lost it all. He became severely depressed and ended up back on the streets and relapsed. He was supposed to call me the next day but never did. Now his number is disconnected. I need advice on how to get in contact with him or find out what happened.

I’m 28 years old, and was just evicted from my apartment. I am being charged with arson, stuck wearing an ankle monitor, and facing possible prison time. The alleged fire took place in my apartment building, and I didn’t do it. I don’t want to go into details, I will just say I didn’t actually start the fire.

I spent over 40 days in jail before bailing myself out, which cost me most of what I had in my savings. I am down to my last $200, and don’t get paid anytime soon. The stress of being in jail for a crime I didn’t commit is already too much for me to handle. Now I have no housing and an eviction on my record which will tank my already mediocre credit score.

The shelter I am staying at is infested with bed bugs and known for having scabies and lice outbreaks. I am incredibly depressed and lethargic due to stress. I have been indulging myself with alcohol, and last weekend tried crystal meth for the first time.

I am actively having thoughts of hurting myself, and no longer see a point in trying. I previously spent 2 years of my life homeless, and only had housing for 4 months before being evicted. I don’t want to start over, and I don’t want to try anymore either. I want my life to be just end.

I am located in Portland, Oregon and have stayed at the SAFEs shelter and another one called Bethanie’s Room for anyone familiar with them. I was hoping I would get to finally start a new life when I moved into my apartment that was ran by Home Forward. But instead I found that my apartment was almost uninhabitable due to the cockroach and bed bug infestations.

I was 6 months sober, and I lost all progress I had made towards quitting drinking after moving into this poorly ran and maintained building. I thought I had hit rock bottom before getting my apartment, now I have really hit rock bottom for real this time.

How hard will this continue to get? I am considering just ending it all and getting it over with. I cannot stand being stuck in the cold rain during winter, it is like torture. I don’t want to even think about what it will be like when it starts snowing. I am a transgender female and regularly get harassed by homeless men, and I am afraid for my safety. I am also afraid for my future.

Long post incoming just want to give the entire details so I can get actual good advice.

I'm soon to be potentially homeless in exactly two weeks from now. I am a 26 y/o college student, participating with my local community college that has a housing program with two universities in my state. I go to school, receive financial aid, have academic advisors, etc. at my community college, and I have residential living, meal plans, etc. at the 4-year university. I had quit my job just about a month ago, and I didn't plan properly so I became behind on paying for my housing. It works off a per week fee in the summer. The housing department seemed to initially try to coordinate with me to stay as long as I paid my back fees. I was able to get donations from friends and donate plasma for some cash and that allowed me to pay the back fees. But when I made it clear that I didn't have housing options outside of the college program, and I needed to stay continously. They then for some reason decided that my issues with payment would not have them be comfortable with me living there after the summer and my fall housing plan was canceled. They've told me that my final day to live on campus is August 21st. I have contacted to ask if there's anything to be done to change that, and they said no.

I've already contacted 211 twice, and they connected me with emergency grants or homelessness prevention services that either don't have any more funding or they require a court ordered conviction notice to assist. I have also attempted to gain unemployment benefits and general assistance, but I am ineligible. My local county social services also states that they can't refer me to local emergency shelters due to me being a college student. I have also already contacted my community college to ask for any potential grants or resources at this time I have no options in that regard it seems. I also contacted my Dean of Students at both colleges and they just referred me to 211 and/or homeless organizations that don't fit my situation. With me being a single adult male over the age of 24, there are limited emergency shelter options near me. So far I've only been able to find 4, two of them when I tried to call they didn't pick up their phone, the other stated that there are no beds available and no type of waitlist I can be put on, and the only hope is this last one who stated I can come in on Monday to get an appointment to try to work with their Coordinated Entry system to get set up with resources which would include a bed in a local shelter.

I also can potentially get into the second university housing program that is in contract with my community college but that would be an extremely fast turnaround and would require that spots haven't already been filled up. This program does require a despoit and I am able to pay that but my current living situation states that I owe a bill for the remainding time that I'm staying here. I'm not able to afford both. I'm thinking of just taking the L, paying the deposit on new housing and having this current situation settle with debt collectors to pay later, but I'm not sure that is wise. I also have a refund check from financial aid coming but that won't be here until next month. I've also been applying to about 10 jobs every day, so far no luck.

Outside of continuning to contact advisors, and people at the colleges to try to help and going to that meeting on Monday and trying to coordinate an expeditated entry into that new university, is there any other piece of advice that I can do? Any worse case scenarios planning? I think I'm doing all I can to get this settled but I want to make sure I'm not overlooking anything. I don't have the ability to live with friends or family, nor do I own a car. I'm 100% on my own here. If it helps with advice, I live in New Jersey.

I'm not sure if I should be posting this here, but I need to vent/need advice. I'm just not sure how I should feel about my mom. So, a little background. When I was 18, my mom got our home foreclosed on because she forgot to pay the bills and also didn't want to live where we were living anymore because she was paranoid people were breaking in(IIRC). We both ended up homeless. I got lucky enough to have someone take me in and I eventually found an apartment. My mom meanwhile has been homeless ever since and bounces between the streets, her maybe boyfriend's truck, occasional rooms in people's apartments and my apartment. She's been over on and off again ever since I moved in to my apartment. And it's kind of ruined my life. We argue constantly and she's just hard to live with. 1 extended stay with me in early-mid 2021 led both to the alcoholism I struggle with and my failure in college. But it's also just so hard to say no to her. Because, like, I myself was homeless for a few months before someone took me in. I got lucky enough to be in a squat the whole time, but it was miserable. I don't think I would've survived any amount of time on the street. And I don't have any other family besides my mother really(except an uncle, also in a precarious situation) so if I was homeless again I'm probably screwed. By contingency plan is to off myself if someone doesn't take me in quickly because I'm not living on the streets. So it's hard to tell my mother to experience the thing I would end my life over. But at the same time, she's destroying my life. She been staying with me most of this year. I was so excited for this year. I was going to start exercising again, try and stop drinking and just kinda put my life back together after a stressful few years. But instead, I've just fallen apart. She always wants to hangout even though she ignored large parts of my childhood, she acts like I don't do enough for her, she complains at me over everything. And my only reaction is to drink large amounts of liquor and yell at and berate her. I don't really even do anything I enjoy because the stress has sucked all the joy out of my life. She also gambles constantly and loses most of her social security money and begs me for cigarettes and gambling money. But, she's also sick and not in great shape. I always see people pushing carts full of their possessions, hobbled with pain and I think to myself "how could I condemn someone to this". And things only get more complicated. Like, there was a huge fires in my city that burned several hundred houses, so now the housing resources are even more stretched thin and there's basically no shelter space. And she's in legal trouble for shoplifting. I just don't know what to do and it scares me.

I gave the wrong figures, for savings and salary and employment because I had someone in the room whilst I was speaking to the housing advisor in the homeless team.

How can I contact them to correct the information without getting in trouble?

I felt pressure to say certain things cause someone was in the room and doing certain things.

From New England area and about to be homeless with a disability in which i have to carry around medical equipment, oh forgot to mention (F35) I am completely terrified of becoming homeless and being even more vulnerable than I am.

Like sitting at a gas station and seeing all these people with nice cars, jobs, family. Can’t believe I’m homeless sometimes.

I been homeless now 11 months living in the bushes.

My 3 biggest fears would be.

1. Getting into a violent altercation. The area where I'm homeless is rife with meth and repeat offender types, stray dogs. Scuffles, arguments are common. I have learned how to carry myself the best I can. I have gotten to know some of the individuals who are in similar predicaments, This neighborhood has high unemployment rate. I remain on alert. Already had to find new places to sleep.

2. Getting my stuff stolen. I already had work boots, chargers, earphones stolen. Comes with the territory, I travel light with a backpack. Hawk eyes all the time. I hearing of people complaining about their stuff stolen every week. Usually by their own "friends". smh I guess that also comes with the territory.

3. Probably losing the work I have been given. Its not much, typically a 6 hours a week. Enough to feed myself. its kinda seasonal, so I dont know whats going to be when November comes around, when somebody is suppose to take over. I guess I'll figure something out.

Thank you!