Rising Moving Expenses To Get A Homeless Family Finally Off The Streets Before Winter
So now that we have dealt with our end of month bills I have exciting news WE HAVE BEEN OFFERED A PLACE TO RENT & HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PUT DOWN A DEPOSIT! We now just need to rise some of the funds for things like our first & second month rent, along with hopefully money for while we are settling in & looking for work opportunities, which will be a lot easier with access to things like a shower & electricity for PCs (me & my twin do commissions) and a sewing machine (my mom is a professional seamstress)
This has came at the best time as our truck was starting to fail after nearly 2 years of being on the streets, and with Canadian winter coming we were in some danger of freezing.
I want to keep this brief, because not everyone wants to read a bunch on a dono post, so more under the cut, but may I just say how happy I am to have this opportunity, for my family to have this opportunity.
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Now for anyone curious about our story, nearly two years ago my family fleed our apartment due to gun violence, we were scared for our lives and since then we have been living in our truck.
We've had a few near bullseyes for fixing this, but past plans have fallen though due to a mix of issues, usually people over estimating what they could offer in terms of help.
It has been hard on us all, we've lost a lot of our few belongings along the way, and all of my family have disabilities of different kinds, my mom has really been pushing herself and I want her to have less to worry about.
Now as for now, we know this woman with a basement suite she had been subleting, and recently it became vacant, we know her, what to expect and we can trust her.
And at the same time this happened, a member of the extended family was able to cover the deposit.
In short the stars alined, and we have a chance to get settled, to try to sort out both our few physical belongings but also like our emotional & mental stuff, we were messy before all this and let me tell you, two years living in a tight truck being harassed basically everyday & having to beg for basic needs like food, it can make things a lot messier, but I do think we can heal, recover, we won't be the same but I hope we'll be very happy as the people we can grow into being.
Hello we have been trying to pay bills and deal with the bank for the last several days which has been taking up most donations we have gotten, at this point we have mostly deal with these things but are now low on food and gas, I am trying to rise $150, it won't cover everything but it should get us thorugh the weekend and dealing with the last of these bills
So we (a homeless disabled family) are yet again behind, we've been harassed and violated by the storage manager we've been dealing with. We're behind on money and need food and gas urgently.
Anything helps us right now, even just a signal boost. Thank you.
QUEER, DISABLED & NEURODIVERGENT HOMELESS FAMILY SEEKING FUNDS FOR HOUSING & SURVIVAL
Tldr: homeless 8 months family need money for day to day survival & to help seek housing & work.
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Longer version is that I have made this sort of post probably like 10 times now, each time explaining that we evacuated our home due to gun violence from another unit, each time when money is a stresser because of things like storage bills to protect all our worldly belongings or data bills that keep my family in contact with the world, allow me to write this or because we don't know what's for dinner or what as a whole we are eating.
Each time I write this I hope, I think that will hopefully be near the end, and then each time I have to make another one of these I feel like I lied, deceived & I hate it so much.
When you're homeless people treat you 1 of 4 ways
Pitied, like you're weak & stupid, something they need to "save" from yourself no matter how much of your freedom & body atomutoity they have to violate to feel better about the emotions THEY feel when they see you.
Like a criminal, like you did something wrong, like you choose to be homeless & have crisis after crisis that lead to unexpected spending. This, this here is why for roughly 6 months I have felt like a lier, I had believed in something that didn't work out & with so many viewing my family like this, despite how much we have tried to do the right things & how the only laws we've broken are the ones that say you cannot exist in a public space, especially if you're homeless.
They leave you, they decide it's too hard to watch, that they can't handle it so will just leave & leave the emotional weight. The crushing weight of calling out for help & no longer hearing them call back on you.
And the last are a little rarer, fair bit rarer: those who just treat you like people, like how they always have, like someone deserving dignity & respect.
Whenever I have made one of these posts I have been scared that someone along the top 3 would show up, so far it hasn't happened but I have had it make me hesitate to ask for help when the chips aren't down, when we have food & no bills, just simply more long term things.
Now I don't simply want to be negative, I want to show briefly how money has helped us so here's what stuff has looked like so far
Truck where we all had to sleep sitting up -> truck where me & brother could lay down -> found reliable sleeping spots -> spent a few nights here & there in motels for showers -> brought the camper -> found a campsite to stay for a little while -> found a semi parament campsite (ehich closes at the start of fall)
None of that would have been possible if people hadn't donated to us, we won't of had money & probably would of had toc resort to extreme & time comunsemming means to survive.
Which brings us to now, we have a place that is safe to stay, that we feel safe being left while our is gone with our mother as she looks for work & goes things like apartment viewing.
We need money for the following
Bills
Food, drinks & basic survival things.
Campsite fees (20$ a night, discounts if we can pay for longer at a time)
& once those are covered money I am rising will be directed to things like housing & dental bills to help my brother.
If you need more info on the exacts of what is going on I urge you to look though my Kitty Says Stuff tag which prior donation posts are all tagged.
No End In Sight, Looking For Our North Star - Houseless/Homeless Family Donation Post.
Tldr: A queer, disabled, neurodivergent family is on the streets, plans fell though and we need money (time is money) to breath and come up with a new plan.
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Now here's the story, under the cut so y'all can rb without worrying about tagging it for being a long post.
So I'm not going to assume anyone has been keeping up with this, so let me start at the beginning.
My family, aka me, my twin brother and our mother moved to a city at the end of 2019 after kicking out our financially and emotionally abusive father.
We had planned on setting up a small business, our mom would focus on this while me and my brother would finish our schooling.
Then covid hit, which led to further isolation like what we dealt with due to our father, it also led to my mother having to rely on a emotionally abusive friend, and on social services, both of these harmed our mothers confidence and albity to make money.
We then ended up cut off from social services and started struggling to make money to make rent.
But that became harder yet, as we started hearing loud arguments and smelling what only could have been drug manufacturing from our upstairs neighbors.
We tried to hold on, hold out and just keep paying rent but eventually one day we heard our neighbor shouting that their partner had pulled a gun on them. We had to call the police, the police 'could do nothing' but told our mother we needed to get out for our safety)
And after nights all sleeping in the same room for our safety, finding out that this gunman had been staying at the upstairs apartment alone for weeks (meaning we were alone in a building with someone dangerous and armed) we got a little money and left.
We thought it'd be simple, we would save our stuff (which we've already had to do after losing the house and after a death in the family) and then find a place.
It wasn't.
We have constantly been met by hostility, harassment, with no where truly safe to stay. We spent many weeks sleeping up right in our car seats and our mother still spending some nights sleeping like that to make sure we are safe.
We've also been lied to, misled and had the rug pulled out from under us. Back in winter we had a offer of a free place to stay that was rescinded due to meddling from the offerers middle class family, we then had a sub lease offered only for the person to turn out to be a hostile alcoholic who violently threw our stuff out and then had a family's friend offer somewhere in the middle of no where to stay, only to constantly treat us as a mix of pet project, farmhand and scape goat for her abusive husband.
We thought we were near the end though, and honestly I still want to hope for that because I and my family are fucking exhausted.
Someone said they would help us, given our pior convos with them we assumed with money. We recently got to speak with them.
It was like talking to someone on another world, we tried to explain why our actions seemed all over the place (money and safety being the answers) and tried to explain how all we needed was somewhere safe to stay for a long bit so we could establish a income (they own multiple properties)
And what we were met by was them treating everything like a light convo, worrying over things that are not within our reach to be worrying about (like schooling (college/university) for me and my brother, due to abuse and covid, we have to still finish hs) and telling us "Well you'd know your situation best but I don't approve."
We were relying on this person to either help us pay for rent or allow us to stay at one of her properties for awhile (so we don't kill ourselves making second month rent) or at least some money for a campsite so we don't have to go walmart parking lot to parking lot hoping to avoid anyone wanting to harm us. But we can't anymore.
And honestly we are all in a bit of shock, and are pretty upset.
Which is why I'm here. I feel horrible asking for money still, and feel like a liar because I had really thought and told people that we were at the last stretch, that we just needed help and then we would have a home again. But it didn't work out like that, I never lied or meant to discivice I simply had too much faith in the wrong person.
So I ask for money now, trying to make it clear that this money is going to be used to make sure survive and have what we need to come to a new, better plan that relies on ourselves and the people who have been actively helpful such as the fine folks on the internet.
Really, while my mother has struggled with irl friends who don't understand this at all a lot of online friends have been really kind and so has me and my brothers friends, people online are really some of the only reason we have met it this far.
So yeah, idk how much we need and I'm not picking numbers at random so…
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