not a good car but a car, unless the market is locally fucked in Portland. In Chicago for instance I see several 07-09 Sentras with ~120k for $3k on Facebook Marketplace which would get you from A to B for a couple years. Nicer than my last car, there's probably some $2k shitboxes still
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.
yeah I think housing first usually. car as housing was a reasonable idea, I'm not gonna knock the plan too much, but clearly it didn't work. IMO it is actually kind of hard to buy a cheap car that works on a tight timeline. Especially because budget wasn't $4k, it was like $2k. Needed to be enough left over to pay for gas/insurance/repairs/parking tickets until she was able to get a paycheck. Takes a lot of time on the internet, multiple meetups, negotiation, possibility of getting robbed, etc. I think calendar time 2 weeks last time I bought a shitbox, and the clock is ticking at $90+ a day if you're in an SRO hotel or something.
I have no experience with halfway houses and stuff, every institution that theoretically gives people free housing that I've interacted with here has been pretty bad unfortunately
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.
not a good car but a car, unless the market is locally fucked in Portland. In Chicago for instance I see several 07-09 Sentras with ~120k for $3k on Facebook Marketplace which would get you from A to B for a couple years. Nicer than my last car, there's probably some $2k shitboxes still
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.
yeah I think housing first usually. car as housing was a reasonable idea, I'm not gonna knock the plan too much, but clearly it didn't work. IMO it is actually kind of hard to buy a cheap car that works on a tight timeline. Especially because budget wasn't $4k, it was like $2k. Needed to be enough left over to pay for gas/insurance/repairs/parking tickets until she was able to get a paycheck. Takes a lot of time on the internet, multiple meetups, negotiation, possibility of getting robbed, etc. I think calendar time 2 weeks last time I bought a shitbox, and the clock is ticking at $90+ a day if you're in an SRO hotel or something.
I have no experience with halfway houses and stuff, every institution that theoretically gives people free housing that I've interacted with here 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.