Urgent - At Risk of Homelessness
Tl;dr is I am in dire need of money to put down on a new apartment because I have to move out of this sublet next Thursday (August 22nd) and without a security deposit nad first month’s rent, I have nowhere to go. At this point, even a dollar would help (if everyone following me gave a dollar, I’d have rent for nearly a year). I have Cash App, Venmo (@Brittany-Smith-50), and Paypal. At the very least, please continue reading and reblogging if you can’t help out. Please help your resident FGLI* college graduate avoid homelessness!
If you haven’t seen me online very much recently, it’s because I’ve been diligently going through months of job hunting and applications, much to no avail. I finished a yearlong fellowship, returned to my college town (My hometown is very rural and has 0 job opportunities currently, hence why I did not go home), and have been met with rejection after rejection after rejection. Even during my fellowship, I applied to what I could in the U.S. considering where I was (most jobs won’t even consider you if you don’t already live nearby), and got rejected. I’ve applied to scores jobs related to my skills, degree, experience, target career, jobs I would have never considered previously, etc. and absolutely nothing has panned out. I cannot rely on my family because they have too many medical bills and far too little income. My mother had to forgo work to take care of her mother, who has no one to take care of her but my mother, and she only has a retired teacher’s income to support them both and take care of her medical bills from a recent heart attack and necessary surgery. My mom cannot work or she runs the risk of losing my grandmother; she has suffered a stroke and heart attack and each time she only survived because she had someone able to call an ambulance / take her to the hospital in time. She’s still recovering from her recent surgery.
To make matters worse, despite the town being familiar and having some friends, no one can take me in to house me when I have to move out this upcoming Thursday. Everyone either has no more room, or a restriction placed by their landlord/contract. I am therefore at risk of homelessness because my money has dried up and I cannot afford the massive expense of putting down a deposit and first month’s rent. At the very least I need enough money to purchase an Airbnb for 2 weeks so I can have a roof over my head and land even a temporary or part-time job to satisfy an income requirement to land a lease.
I need at least $500 to have a roof over my head for 2 weeks via Airbnb and I will need $1600-$1800 if I have to go the security deposit route. Either way, it’s more money than I have right now. Please please please send whatever you can right now and reblog this post. This is extremely urgent and I’m in a highly dangerous situation. Connecticut is not a safe place to be in this kind of situation.
Cash App | Paypal | Venmo (if Venmo link doesn’t work, username is Brittany-Smith-50)
(*FGLI = First-Generation Low Income! I’m the first in my immediate family to go to college and we’re barely even considered working poor... :( )
