I finally logged on and updated my profile. Blah, Blah...the world after school sucks as much as it did while in school. Only the suckiness happens on a full-time basis
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It's really, really intense. Essentially all homeless women in the city have to meet with me (or 2 other people) and do paperwork and somehow, to them, I become responsible with giving them housing. I can't even count how many women I've met with that have no income and yet expect money and an apartment to just be given to them the second they hit the door. Sorry, but free money and housing doesn't exist! And I work with a largely traumatized and mentally ill population so it's just not a good environment...from the stories to the behaviors to everything in between
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Yeah, I've found that people who have never had to use public assistance think it is so easy to get tons of free money every month, and it really isn't. You have a better chance if you have kids and such, but when I had money problems, I could hardly get anywhere half the time. I was lucky to get the help I did. People always go, "Just go on Section 8," and seem to think you can walk in and out with it the same day. Nevermind the fact that in most places, they have a 2-3 year waiting list.
You would think if these women want housing and money help for nothing, they'd at least be willing to wait. I'm sorry they're stressing you out by being grabby.
The thing that irritates me is that a majority of our clients are repeats. Meaning they were helped in the past but didn't pay the rent and were evicted again. And a VAST majority of these women are on SSI. So they have income and food stamps, they just never learned how to pay for anything or the basic fact that they HAVE to actually pay for things
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You would think if these women want housing and money help for nothing, they'd at least be willing to wait. I'm sorry they're stressing you out by being grabby.
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