this is a rant just a warning
Im a case manager that helps homeless vets get long term housing and there’s something called permanent supportive housing. they want me document to show there was no gaps in their time being homeless (its a 1 year minimum) or to show 4 times (lapses) becoming homeless. its documented by having providers give them services (documented on a homeless data base) or have an observation of their living situation that got noted etc.
fucking bullshit that they can’t accidentally give someone who was only homeless 11 months or who was homeless 11 months housed 1 month but became homeless again. this is infuriating lmao ughhhhh why cant we just give people homes fuck
matt is way more well read than me and you could not have a better nightmare to loom over every worker than to know that a single bad month could make you live in the streets no bed, no food, nothing to help you get out of this situation in cities that are designed around making you have the least comfort possible if you are in this situation
the shit i hear second hand from my clients is extremely gut wrenchingly evil like seriously. anyone who says they need to just work harder or whatever is so beyond out of touch i want then to live 12 hours in their shoes and see how they feel