Hello, I go by Steph and I am asking for your help.

Here's the need:

I am currently unemployed, displaced, and unhoused. I am traveling around along with my wife and dog; we have been drifting between whatever campsites we can find and living out of our truck since the end of February. With the hiked up prices for accomodations in our area due to spring break and how high gas costs have been recently, we've burned through our savings disturbingly quickly. Today we are down to our last $50.

Before our financial difficulties, we bought a used pickup truck on a bank loan because we needed more reliable transportation than the old runabout we had previously. We are at risk of the truck being repossessed if we don't make a payment next month of about $700. Losing the truck means that we would lose our ability to store and transport our personal belongings safely, travel to any available short term housing, or, in the event of no availability, sleep in the truck itself. Hopefully, I'll soon be using it to get to a place of regular employment!

Our other expenses right now include gas, truck insurance [about $300 a month], laundromats, toiletries, and food for us and the dog. We would appreciate any aid you would be able to spare, even if it's sharing the link to this post!

Here's some context:

My wife and I have sent in hundreds of applications and gone through many interviews over the past few months with no luck in securing firm job offers for work. Every public or charitable resource we have applied to for assistance has been unfruitful because we miss some arbitrary metric of misery or has resulted in us being placed on wait-lists for help expected to be at least one year long.

I have mobility limitations due to a work-related injury from last year that is still healing, and I am having trouble finding suitable employment. My wife is a combat veteran and also has mobility limitations, but is not eligible for many government or private veteran assistance programs because my wife's disabilities are not considered to be 100% service-connected.

Both my wife and I are also struggling with emotional and mental health disorders; while my wife is able to seek care through the VA medical centers, I have severe mental health issues that are currently unmedicated due to lack of health insurance and no easy access to doctors.

My ESA dog, Mira, is an American Pitbull Terrier [Emotional Support Animal]. I have a goal to enroll her in psychological service animal training when our finances are stable and we have a safe place to live. So Mira is very important because she *literally* keeps me safe by alerting me to the onset of depressive or manic episodes and reminding me to eat.

Frustratingly, despite the law stating that ESAs must be allowed in any residential space, it is difficult to find a place that will approve us for a lease with a "dangerous breed" of animal in the household. We have been getting housing application denials for other cited reasons, even when we still had regular income, so I know that those are just excuses. Mira is a 2yr old shelter rescue and the sweetest puppy baby you could ever meet; she has never been violent to anything other than her squeaky toys.