#houselessness

[slowdancinginthedarcc]

Please help a Black trans woman pay rent and stay afloat!!

I had an unexpected medical emergency a few months ago that really decimated my savings. My partner and I both work full time but it's looking like we still won't have enough to afford rent this month. All of this stress is doing real damage to my mental and physical help and I literally can not afford to endanger that any further. If you can spare anything at all, here is a link to my Cashapp . If you want to help but can't afford to monetarily, even a reblog would be so appreciated!!

[onlytiktoks]

[allthecanadianpolitics]

More than 80,000 people in Ontario were homeless last year, a new report from the province's municipalities shows, in what is the clearest picture of the issue to date. And nearly half of those people have lived either in shelters or on the streets for more than six months, or experienced recurrent homelessness over the past three years, the Association of Municipalities of Ontario found in its report examining the human and financial cost of the province's homelessness crisis. The association, which represents 444 municipalities across Ontario, said a fundamentally different approach is needed to tackle the crisis, one that prioritizes long-term housing solutions rather than temporary measures or policing solutions.

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Tagging: @newsfromstolenland

[chronicallycouchbound]

Let People On Food Stamps Eat Hot Meals

Particularly on cold, rainy days (like today), while unhoused, sometimes all I want is a hot meal but it’s so difficult (if not impossible) to cook outside in the rain.

On top of this, I’m physically disabled and chronically ill. Medically, I’m supposed to have assistance with making meals as part of in home care. But I can’t get in home care without a home.

I just finished making dinner for my partner and I, it took 2 hours (3 if you include clean up). My knees are burning, my back is aching in it’s core, I feel like I’m about to faint, and all my joints are screaming. But it’s the only way we could have a hot meal today and get some protein, which is vital for our health conditions.

People judge us for using what little funds we have on McDonald’s some days. Because sometimes, it’s the only hot meal we’ve had in days. And sometimes I’m physically unable to stand, move, and do all the actions needed to cook. Or I faint while cooking. Or the rain doesn’t let up. Or we don’t have access to a kitchen for the day. Or the fire danger outside is too high. The list goes on.

Without my own kitchen to use, I don’t get to sit down while I cook (right now, everything is wet from the rain), I can’t meal prep, I can’t stock up on freezer meals, I can’t use an oven or a microwave to reheat leftovers, I can’t just reach across the kitchen for a fridge item (we have a small amount of fridge space friends let us use), everything about cooking is exponentially harder.

And even if I had 24/7 access to an accessible, full kitchen, it’s not even physically safe to cook my own meals. Even then, having a pre-made, hot, ready-to-eat meal could keep me safe and give me independance.

And all the safety needs for hot meals aside, emotionally, hot meals are also life saving and comfort. Meals are a part of community, culture, love and art.

So many gatherings we have as communities center around food. Most people in the United States would think of ones that often hold great value to Western culture. Mother’s Day breakfast. Spaghetti fundraisers. Wedding cakes. Birthday dinners. Bake sales. Carnival treats. BBQs on weekends. Holiday roasts. Lunches with friends. Casseroles brought to grieving neighbors.

Our world revolves around food.

I firmly believe that no poor person could ever “take advantage” of a system designed to feed us by using food stamps on hot food. This restrictive rule serves no purpose but to punish the most vulnerable of poor people— unhoused, disabled, and those of us living in unsafe conditions.

It also serves to restrict our access to joy and comfort. The joy can sometimes come from the food itself, but also the joy from having shared experiences solidified by the sounds of laughter and forks clinking on plates. The comfort can sometimes also be from the food itself, but also the experience of being loved and cared for while your close friend brings you pizza from your favorite restaurant because you lost your drive to eat three weeks ago and they worry about you. They know you. Those slices of pizza bring color back into your world.

Poor people deserve to be able to have the comfort, joy, and care that goes into a hot meal. We deserve the autonomy to choose foods that are best for us ourselves. We deserve to be able to eat in ways that are accessible to us.

Above all, we deserve access to hot meals.

Originally posted to my blog on 6.3.22

[vague-humanoid]

[all-socialism-is-democratic]

[resistancecommittee]

🚨🚨 ** URGENT ** 🚨🚨

so I’ve gotten sick, making it even more difficult to come up with the $60 almost $70 a day (or $250 for a full week) we need to be able to keep our room at the cheapest motel in our area, let alone for us to afford anything else given our food stamps have run out until the 8th of september. given our physical conditions and the weather, if we were to be without shelter and on the street we would end up seriously ill and/or dead fairly quickly, and thats saying nothing of our mental states as is.

we have been through so much just the past 2-3 months, let alone the last year, and for anyone not familiar with our situation there are previous posts detailing much of it on my blog. that being said, if anyone can afford to help at all we sincerely appreciate any little bit of support and we want to thank everyone that’s helped us even the slightest amount throughout this. solidarity forever ❤️🖤

my wife&i’s links :

p4yp4l: @ iwannadaisuki + @ poppybun

ca$h4pp: $goldenratio1123 + $melancholicore

v3nmo: @ iwannadaisuki + @ sleepyguts

[charliejaneanders]

My latest newsletter is about the attempts to evict Bluestockings, and the new laws that require maximum cruelty towards unhoused people. And I talk about why we want to judge unhoused people for their behavior, and how it's part of our American disease.

[dognonsense]

the last video of courtney talking about harm reduction i shared a while back resonated with people. So heres an update on her! We got great news for courtney as she has her own room after being homeless for 2-3 years now. Her venmo is court-dourt if you want to support her.

[chronicallycouchbound]

Disabled joy looks like me zooming down the streets in my powerchair at full speed, fall leaves crunching under my wheels.

18 year old me, sobbing as I was forced to crawl up the ice-coated steps of the local youth homeless shelter, never could have dreamed of this.

[frilledshark-enthusiast]

reasons why you should offer a homeless person money instead of food

Homeless people can’t trust your food, you may have innocent intentions but a lot of people think it’s funny or ok to tamper with the food, spit in it or even poison it

they could be allergic, a lot of food given to homeless people is unpackaged or opened and they can’t tell if it has something they are allergic too in it. Or you could be putting them in horrible danger by even having the food near them

the person giving it could be sick. A lot of homeless people don’t have access to health care and they’d definitely don’t have access to a warm place to sleep at night if they get sick. Even with drug store medicine (which they might not be able to afford) they could die from a common cold.

medical reasons. This ties in with allergies but a lot of disabled people are homeless and maybe they can’t eat something because of an intolerance or disorder

they don’t need food. Maybe they have someone giving them emails but at the time they need money for clothes or medical expenses

they just don’t like it! Homeless people are humans too sometimes they don’t like certain foods!!

Yea maybe they’ll use it to buy drugs but you run the same risk if you were to give that 10 dollars to a white man in a suit or any of those people in the “double it and give it to the next person” trend. Homeless people should be allowed to make their own decisions

[fascistsarefreefood]

Does anyone have any ideas for mutual aid projects Im setting up a mutual aid point in my community where people can leave and take stuff and I want to put some stuff out but I don't have a lot of money for it so I'm trying to DIY stuff like reusable pads and I've got homegrown stuff but I'll need to make containers for them other than that I could do with more ideas of places where I could get stuff or DIY stuff

[nando161mando]

Denver Unhoused Advocacy Group Releases Winter Shelter Survey Data [Pres...

[that-gay-jedi]

What if we all collectively broaden the concept of a haunted house with a greater focus on homelessness.

What if when a habitable house stands empty for bullshit financial reasons is when it gets hungry and angry.

What if a home that's been turned into an airbnb experiences the trauma of abandonment again and again every night, hoping against hope with each new renter, until the owner who hasn't set foot on its doorstep in years drops dead of a mysterious heart attack.

What if the taint of violence upon a home can originate not only from murder, but from the subtler forms of violence the wealthy enact in their class war.

What if the haunting within a squatted-in house develops a sense of gratitude and a fierce protectiveness of its squatters, becomes a labyrinth to swallow the cops who would harass them.

What if the newly built condo complex that juts painfully from the surrounding neighbourhood like a knife from a wound is haunted by everything that was sacrificed to build it, genius loci steeped in guilt and grief, a monument to human cruelty.

What if a house that's subjected to property speculation grows more sinister with each new investor until its corruption spreads through the entire neighbourhood. Those who can afford to move away do, unaware that what they're fleeing is supernatural and not merely the failure of the HOA to keep up the property values.

What if renovicted apartments whose tenants were unable to find safe footing elsewhere in the world are haunted by the ghosts, even though the former tenants never died there. They died because they were forced out.

What if the houses of the richest, homes bought or built with blood money, resent their owners. What if they never asked to be made this way, but have no moral agency to act and no hands with which to destroy themselves. What if they have their own ways of exacting revenge.