SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]

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  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]tomutual_aidI'm sorry
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    19 days ago

    I have no experience with halfway houses and stuff, all my contact with institutions that theoretically give people free housing has been pretty bad unfortunately

    They can be hit or miss from what I've gathered. You can luck out and find a good one or one run by assholes. Obviously you gotta be sober to stay in them though, hence why I recommended rehab first. The way I've always seen it broken down is most people come from rehab or prison to a halfway house. Not sure if they take people otherwise, might be worth looking into.






  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]tomutual_aidI'm sorry
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    19 days ago

    They way people were making it out in the thread OP told us about her getting gifted the money people were saying that money still wouldn't be enough. My point is we can sit here and heap blame and make her feel worse than she already does or be realistic about the situation and try to see a way forward, I think. I still come back to her best bet being set up with some sort of rehab to halfway house pipeline that could involve social services. A lot of hw houses have work programs that shuttle you back and forth and could be a way to make up some savings to get into an apartment. Spitballing ideas ofc but that's what I keep coming back to. I wanted to do something similar to this myself at one point.



  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]tomutual_aidI'm sorry
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    19 days ago

    To be realistic 4k isn't all that much money and whomever gifted you was obviously well off enough that it wasn't a big deal to them to drop it on a stranger. It certainly wasn't enough to get a good car with the way prices are now on used ones, or so I hear.







  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]tomutual_aidI'm sorry
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    19 days ago

    While I would never tell a comrade to do anything they don't want to do. I still think it would be worth your while to look into state funded rehabs then go the rehab to half way house route. Rehab sucks and AA is bullshit but if you can just fake it and pretend to go along you can get into possibly a permanent housing situation. Again, not telling you what to do, but just ideas that might work and make things better.



























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