#I'm on the wait list for alleged disablef housing but it's been two years and no updates so...

[arctic-hands]

Cost of housing is bonkers and so is Indiana. If I didn't have two roommates to share rent with on my meager SSI (which is the full amount a single person can get and it's still a pittance), I would have had to move out of Indiana and back to Small Dead Factory Town, Indiana and rent my grandmother's whole house from my father for actually much more cheaper than a studio in Baltimore, and Baltimore is (or was, not sure now in the last few years) was one of the cheapest major cities in America. And even ignoring the fact that my father would be the landlord, it wouldn't have even been favoritism keeping rent low, it was around the same price as renting a whole ass house from anyone else in the town.

BUT Indiana is more violent to people like me (disabled, queer, on welfare. If I were Black or another person of color it would be even moreso, the vastly majority white and universally conservative town had an active Klan chapter until just a few years ago) than even Baltimore's violent reputation. While I was still living there pence stripped me of my life saving Medicaid. And one of the few openly queer people there was literally chased out of town and had to flee to another state after receiving multiple credible death threats for trying to organize a Pride event in June, by a group calling themselves "Whitewater Valley Groomer Removers", so like. Even ignoring the fact that I was miserable the entire four years I was living in that town (I grew up in a larger town, small city, but we moved to Dying Factory Town to be closer to my widowed grandmother), it would have been terrifyingly unsafe for a multitude of reasons