Find a home on $360

2008.06.06 - 1:40 PM

Wow, our government is awesome. My social worker has refused to pay for me to stay at the homeless shelter for any more then a few nights. I can only stay till the 15th. She then figures I should be able to find a place to live in the city for $360 max. WTF!? I don't get this. At least my medication is helping me not be depressed & suffer social anxiety. But WTF!? How does one rent a place for $360 a month. Thats kinda screwed up, I was getting $495 for the last few months while I was going to all my appointments & going to addiction services, seeing the dr & then I went to treatment. Come back, the place I was living is rented out (it was $420 per month) I told her what happened and she threatened to cut me off. !? Thats help.. I don't understand our system. I just know when I was loaded up & numb all day everyday I could work just fine. now that I have these stupid feelings & emotions I'm screwed up. Trying to deal with them as fast as I can. The psychologist says I shouldn't be working right now, but if social assistance disability doesn't want to help me have a place to live while I learn to deal with these problems, then maybe I'll just have to say fuck it & deal with it the only way I know how. Which really sucks. I kinda like being clear headed & able to thing, and have feelings, even if they are kinda all over the place, feelings are still better then being numb 24/7. Ah well, I'm probably going to keep documenting all thats going on & file a complaint or something. I dunno. Not really sure what to do. Sofar everyday I call my worker to try to get some help, get her voice mail. (she never calls back till 3:50 & they close at 4:00) then I run out the door to the library, hunt online for cheap places to live, look at jobs, then wander around looking for phone numbers of places to live & talk to people asking if they know anywhere, or if they have any suggestions. Then its off to a meeting, and depending on the night, its eighet AA, NA, or my Church. Ah well its just life. I hope god is watching over me. But 1 good thing has come out of all this. I'm still clean & sober. No relapsing. Not even craving to get loaded. The only thing thats bugging me is our government, not having a home & being broke. *shrug* thanks for all the kind words. sorry im rushing my posts... computers here are on a time limit..

Comments

anya on 2008.06.13

Thanks for keeping us posted. It must be really frustrating to deal with the inherent contradictions of our system (social housing, anyone?), but it's inspiring to see that you're staying strong through it all. Take care and give us some news. Keep up the struggle!

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