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I'm 35. I was homeless for a short time when I was 23. My sister who is 4 years older than me has been homeless a few times, but she has her own issues. I know a few people around my age who were homeless for short times. It's becoming a rite of passage in this country to experience becoming unhoused, and it's really fucking sad how normalized it's becoming.
Interest rates are through the roof right now at the same time that rent is through the roof and people wonder why homelessness is on the rise. Meanwhile, wages haven't budged but grocery trips have gone up 100-200% in the past 5 years. Companies claim "supply chain" but the reality is that they raised prices when they had believable temporary reasons and never saw any reason to reduce them back down. Hence record profits. We're being fucked to the limit.
39 checking in. in 2010 I was super broke, and when they shut my power off, my landlord said he wasn't gonna renew the lease next month. that meant I had no food, no lights, and 30 days to come up with 90 days' rent (first, last and security at a new place). I was lucky that I had someone to let me crash and start rebuilding my life, but I also promised myself I'd never for the rest of my life let my survival be dictated by luck and someone else's kindness.
Maybe that is a radical idea to some but I for one think people shouldn't become homeless even if they have issues of any kind.
Agreed. I don't think she's psychologically capable of caring for herself. I think there was some serious trauma because she graduated summa cum laude to get her ME degree, so to go from that to barely holding low level jobs like cart pusher has been pretty jarring to watch. But yeah, at the end of the day, everybody deserves food and shelter and healthcare.
Good luck...
We got adult single people with full time jobs going homeless. Until this basic issue is fixed, nothing can be fixed.