Hi, I'm Hannah! I live at a women's homeless shelter in Los Angeles, California. It is a renovated warehouse with over 70 women living in the room in cubicles. I've been housing insecure for the majority of the last 8 years, and have been fully living in shelters for the past year. I am disabled and have been unable to work since 2022, leading to the homelessness.

Earlier this year I started an instagram page (@homelesshackwithhan) to help dispel some of the fear and stigma around homelessness as a whole! I wanted to make the kind of page that would have helped me in some way when I first started to realize that I would be without any kind of roof. I do not "look" homeless, which is the type of bias I want to dispel. I AM what homeless looks like, and while I often look/sound healthy in videos I post, I am also what disability looks like.

This fund would help provide short retreats for me to motel/hotel rooms when I am having severe episodes that would be aided by privacy and quiet (not possible at this current shelter) for me to have my telehealth appointments. It would also help with transportation from my shelter to in-person appointments, or pickups for medication and other supplements/supplies/necessities. I would also be able to get clothes better suited to the extremely (and unusually) hot weather that LA is currently experiencing,.

I am also of the firm belief that homeless people are, in fact, people, and people deserve nice things, so I might also get a stuffed animal. No promises :)