Housing a BIPOC Caregiver after loss of Mom

Howdy everyone, I’m Priya. I’m 25 years old. I love music, animals, nature, and community outreach. Currently, I am houseless after being kicked out of my place of residence that I lived and cared for my mom in for over 4 years. My mom has a stroke in addition to already progressive kidney failure when I was 16. Without choice in the matter I became my mom’s sole caregiver from that day onward. I’ve been struggling to find work where I live and I have no assets of my own. I’m at the mercy of my partner and the homeless shelters around me are abusive and mistreat those in need. I haven’t known what it’s like to feel safety in my life ever. I was my mom’s caretaker for the last 10 years. With her passing I’ve been left no foundation to stand on. She didn’t have much money when she was alive and after planning and paying for her funeral I’ve been depleted. Being her caretaker since I was 15 has been super traumatic and stressful. It was the reason I dropped out of college as working, going to school and helping her with everything became too much. Most of my late teens to early adulthood was spent going to hospitals, testing to be a match for her kidney failure, and taking her to doctors appointments. Being forced to be my mom’s kidney donor, especially being underage at the time, was a whole set of new trauma that I haven’t ever had the time to process. The kidney disease she had is genetic as well and will effect me sometime later in my own life. I haven’t been able to go to the doctor to see how well my kidneys are functioning either. My ex partner doesn’t have the emotional capacity to be there for anyone, not even themselves, and learning that too late has made me incredibly vulnerable. I love to dance, to laugh, to joke, to take care of animals, to be in nature. I always wanted to go back to college and get a degree in psychology. I don’t want my dreams of helping others and loving on the planet to be taken from me. I don’t want to fade into the obscurity with never being able to accomplish and in enact the change I want to see in this world. I deserve to have a life, to have me voice heard, to be a part of our community and society. Please help me make my dreams, my life, a reality.