LifeFuel Might finally move into my own unit after being in a homeless halfway house for 5 months

[Tetsuya]

I can't believe I've been homeless for nearly half the year. I was living in a halfway house for 5 months now, and got a housing voucher and a pending application to a studio unit to move into. I already found a unit before but it fell through, and had to search for another one. This time it might work as the leasing management is familiar with housing vouchers.

The only bathroom shared between 4 people has diarrhea and piss splattered on it, so I often just piss and shit in my room. The bathroom is occupied half the time anyway. It also smells like stale piss that gets even stronger if I turn on the shower and the steam starts filling the bathroom. Summer has already started and there is no AC in my unit, and my room is boiling because this is a brick building with my room facing the sun. I felt like I was going to have a heat stroke, and definitely had heat stress. I put aluminum foils on the windows. I left and stayed in a hotel for almost a week though it's expensive but I put it on credit card.

It's probably going to be another 3 weeks or a month until I get to move out of this place. I'll probably stay at the local library for the AC during day time and then go back to my room at sundown.

 

[zd60]

good luck with it brocel, i have heard its quite hard to find people taking housing vouchers and takes even longer to get one

 

[parbate2025]

I can't believe I've been homeless for nearly half the year. I was living in a halfway house for 5 months now, and got a housing voucher and a pending application to a studio unit to move into. I already found a unit before but it fell through, and had to search for another one. This time it might work as the leasing management is familiar with housing vouchers.

The only bathroom shared between 4 people has diarrhea and piss splattered on it, so I often just piss and shit in my room. The bathroom is occupied half the time anyway. It also smells like stale piss that gets even stronger if I turn on the shower and the steam starts filling the bathroom. Summer has already started and there is no AC in my unit, and my room is boiling because this is a brick building with my room facing the sun. I felt like I was going to have a heat stroke, and definitely had heat stress. I put aluminum foils on the windows. I left and stayed in a hotel for almost a week though it's expensive but I put it on credit card.

It's probably going to be another 3 weeks or a month until I get to move out of this place. I'll probably stay at the local library for the AC during day time and then go back to my room at sundown.

Happy for you brocel.

 

[PLS HALP ME]

good luck man

 

[poorenglishcel]

Congrats boyo

 

[mrlunatic]

Good luck brocel.

 

[Tetsuya]

good luck with it brocel, i have heard its quite hard to find people taking housing vouchers and takes even longer to get one

housing discrimination is 100% a thing, I've had a lot of leasing offices and managers not follow up and just ghost when I tell them I am using a housing voucher, though those are mostly smaller managements doing tours for private landlords or smaller landlords. Part of it is stigma but it's also that not a lot of owners, especially slum lords, want their units scrutinized with inspection and bureacratic paperwork.

You usually don't want to go to the rentals that are designated for voucher tenants or advertises to voucher tenants because they can be pretty hood, or they're always in the faraway shitty areas. I went to tour one "luxury" building that a caseworker referred me to, and I saw a lot of bad reviews on how there are sketchy shit going on in the building that the management doesn't do anything about, how the management doesn't enforce rules or security, and how people smoke inside the units that drift into other units. I showed up to a unit they were trying to rent and it smelled like cigarettes so the reviews were right.

I had better chance going to more corporate apartment rental buildings, even ones that are "luxury" and for white collar professional upper middle class tenants. They're less intimidated by bureacratic paperwork and aren't as worried about passing inspections. The first unit I applied to that didn't work out was a luxury unit but they weren't registered for section 8 and struggled to get the compliant paperwork that the housing authority wanted, so I had to move on after waiting a month and a half. Then I was walking around a nice neighborhood and found another luxury rental building that turned out to be part of the NYC housing lottery for voucher holders, though they don't explicitly advertise themselves as a voucher-friendly building online or on ads.

All the nice places said yes to me while the shitty independently run places ghosted.

I feel like a welfare queen because if this unit application goes through, I'll be getting a nice unit in a nice neighborhood with the cost subsidized while I pay only 30% of my income/pension.

 

[zd60]

housing discrimination is 100% a thing, I've had a lot of leasing offices and managers not follow up and just ghost when I tell them I am using a housing voucher, though those are mostly smaller managements doing tours for private landlords or smaller landlords. Part of it is stigma but it's also that not a lot of owners, especially slum lords, want their units scrutinized with inspection and bureacratic paperwork.

You usually don't want to go to the rentals that are designated for voucher tenants or advertises to voucher tenants because they can be pretty hood, or they're always in the faraway shitty areas. I went to tour one "luxury" building that a caseworker referred me to, and I saw a lot of bad reviews on how there are sketchy shit going on in the building that the management doesn't do anything about, how the management doesn't enforce rules or security, and how people smoke inside the units that drift into other units. I showed up to a unit they were trying to rent and it smelled like cigarettes so the reviews were right.

I had better chance going to more corporate apartment rental buildings, even ones that are "luxury" and for white collar professional upper middle class tenants. They're less intimidated by bureacratic paperwork and aren't as worried about passing inspections. The first unit I applied to that didn't work out was a luxury unit but they weren't registered for section 8 and struggled to get the compliant paperwork that the housing authority wanted, so I had to move on after waiting a month and a half. Then I was walking around a nice neighborhood and found another luxury rental building that turned out to be part of the NYC housing lottery for voucher holders, though they don't explicitly advertise themselves as a voucher-friendly building online or on ads.

All the nice places said yes to me while the shitty independently run places ghosted.

I feel like a welfare queen because if this unit application goes through, I'll be getting a nice unit in a nice neighborhood with the cost subsidized while I pay only 30% of my income/pension.

makes sense, i've never gone through with anything for housing vouchers so i have no clue how it all works i basically figured they just only allow you to stay in the shittiest places they can possible find.

I thought all the good places would turn the housing voucher ppeople away just because they don't want the image of renting to section 8 people, i've seen it quite a few times when a nice place lets someone with a housing voucher stay it ends up getting over run by niggers or other vile animals and turning out just like the rest of the places

 

[TheSlavicCel]

I can't believe I've been homeless for nearly half the year. I was living in a halfway house for 5 months now, and got a housing voucher and a pending application to a studio unit to move into. I already found a unit before but it fell through, and had to search for another one. This time it might work as the leasing management is familiar with housing vouchers.

The only bathroom shared between 4 people has diarrhea and piss splattered on it, so I often just piss and shit in my room. The bathroom is occupied half the time anyway. It also smells like stale piss that gets even stronger if I turn on the shower and the steam starts filling the bathroom. Summer has already started and there is no AC in my unit, and my room is boiling because this is a brick building with my room facing the sun. I felt like I was going to have a heat stroke, and definitely had heat stress. I put aluminum foils on the windows. I left and stayed in a hotel for almost a week though it's expensive but I put it on credit card.

It's probably going to be another 3 weeks or a month until I get to move out of this place. I'll probably stay at the local library for the AC during day time and then go back to my room at sundown.

Probably i gonna be homeless soon

 

[Tetsuya]

Happy for you brocel.

good luck man

Congrats boyo

Good luck brocel.

thanks brahs

makes sense, i've never gone through with anything for housing vouchers so i have no clue how it all works i basically figured they just only allow you to stay in the shittiest places they can possible find.

I thought all the good places would turn the housing voucher ppeople away just because they don't want the image of renting to section 8 people, i've seen it quite a few times when a nice place lets someone with a housing voucher stay it ends up getting over run by niggers or other vile animals and turning out just like the rest of the places

you're 100% right. A lot of the places that go out of the way to advertise to get voucher holders are going to be the shitty places run by slumlords who the bare minimum, or if it's a more decent place they only let like 10-20% of their building be tenant vouchers. And a lot of good places do turn people with vouchers away though in my experience it was the opposite and the nicer corporate buildings were more willing to work with me. But then I don't look like a voucher stereotype, I dressed up in my sunday's best, I am a rice, so I read more as "safe" than the darker brethrens.

The unit rental building that a caseworker referred me to was known to be a section 8 building though it's "luxury" and the rich foreigners who moved into the unit were none the wiser because it's not like the building's website is going to advertise "WE TAKE SECTION 8 VOUCHERS" on their main page and foreigners don't do their research. There are a bunch of complaints on that building about neighbors (likely voucher holders) blasting loud music and smoking cigarettes and weed inside the building, fighting in the hallways, letting their large dogs loose and pissing everywhere, and if the other tenants complained or confronted the problematic neighbors the latter would even threaten to fight them. Hood behavior.

I had my voucher for 3 months now and I was very picky about where I move because once I move to a place, I need to commit to the place for a year and the HUD don't make it easy to transfer your voucher to another building willy nilly. The caseworkers are useless for finding a decent place, you have to go out and find a place on your own.

 

[zd60]

you're 100% right. A lot of the places that go out of the way to advertise to get voucher holders are going to be the shitty places run by slumlords who the bare minimum, or if it's a more decent place they only let like 10-20% of their building be tenant vouchers. And a lot of good places do turn people with vouchers away though in my experience it was the opposite and the nicer corporate buildings were more willing to work with me. But then I don't look like a voucher stereotype, I dressed up in my sunday's best, I am a rice, so I read more as "safe" than the darker brethrens.

The unit rental building that a caseworker referred me to was known to be a section 8 building though it's "luxury" and the rich foreigners who moved into the unit were none the wiser because it's not like the building's website is going to advertise "WE TAKE SECTION 8 VOUCHERS" on their main page and foreigners don't do their research. There are a bunch of complaints on that building about neighbors (likely voucher holders) blasting loud music and smoking cigarettes and weed inside the building, fighting in the hallways, letting their large dogs loose and pissing everywhere, and if the other tenants complained or confronted the problematic neighbors the latter would even threaten to fight them. Hood behavior.

I had my voucher for 3 months now and I was very picky about where I move because once I move to a place, I need to commit to the place for a year and the HUD don't make it easy to transfer your voucher to another building willy nilly. The caseworkers are useless for finding a decent place, you have to go out and find a place on your own.

I see, it makes sense they don't just blatantly advertise to section 8 vouchers would just draw in too many unwanted nonsense, and yeah your right they don't make it easy at all to move to a new place once your in one i've known people who have basically been stuck in the spot their in even after its going to complete shit because they can't get them to be allowed to transfer somewhere else.

its all just honestly one big nightmare with all the shit they make you workthrough before you ever get anything decent from caseworkers or the welfare offices