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It cost money to stay at our local shelter last I heard.
Yeah, many of them cost 20+ a night and the beds are so limited you have to line up hours before hand to even have a chance of getting in. And then when you do get in you have to deal with violent staff, cops, extremely restrictive rules, theft, and often bedbugs.
WTF shelters cost money? For 20 a night, save up and just get a motel room honestly, not that much more and you don't have to deal with shelter BS. I would be sleeping in my car 5 nights a week and getting a motel 2 nights a week rather than spending money to go to a shitty place like that.
Yeah, I didn't know that either...
Ed. One of the shelters near me is 'faith based' (better love jesus), and need you to have been homeless for 6+ months before using...this is actually demonic shit though, charge the most vulnerable money they don't have, or force them to adopt your religion
I wanna
How do they expect you to prove you have been homeless for 6 months? And what's the point of that? We need people to have experienced enough suffering so they will fall for our indoctrination?
I didn't have a car so I just slept outside and then got a motel room 2 days a week the first time I was homeless. Definitely the shelters are a problem that I didn't want to deal with and couldn't get into if I wanted to most of the time.
But also the motel costs were still like $35 a night and generally was only possible because I still had a job.
Being homeless is so costly and so stressful.
I can't imagine being homeless, and I especially can't imagine doing it without a car. That's my one fallback right now that at least feels a bit better, although car sleeping laws are still existent and stupid. But being in the streets right now, especially with the current crackdown on homeless in CA and your belongings just being open for the taking by police at a moments notice. Like how the fuck do we expect people to live
Yeah, 3 times over the last decade but mostly in a row cause it's hard to claw your way back up. I found a storage unit was nice the second time cause as long as I knew I could only take a couple hour naps during the day all my stuff was at least safe at night and I just needed to find somewhere safe to hang out.
Last time I got lucky with a flop house that was cheap but... Definitely a flop house. I couldn't imagine it right now though. Been sheltered for a few years now and it certainly does seem rougher and the weather less helpful.
I'm shocked Hoovervilles haven't made a return but land is a lot more private now and people are more willing to obey the law.
Sounds like it's pretty much the same across the board then.