Help 2Avoid Eviction & Homelessness (& feed Brio!)

Please help me keep my SSI and health insurance! Do NOT donate through this site, Zelle, PayPal, etc. Please INSTEAD use the Ugiftable information provided below. 

As deeply as I appreciate your generosity, cash gifts can put me (back) over the asset and income thresholds I’m allowed and I will lose income, insurance, and food stamps. It’s already happened and I’m struggling to get these services and funds back. My only income is $360/month in Social Security, with no food stamps, so these benefits are essential to my existence and trying to get back on my feet. Obviously no one can survive on this. 

PLEASE instead use my ABLE account - which contents and deposits are not counted by the various agencies upon which I now depend, unlike my bank account into which these other sources pour. It’s just as easy and safe - and I get every penny. I cannot emphasize enough how important this is. 

*****To donate to my safe ABLE account, go to Ugiftable.com and enter my personal code G02-R22. *****

Yes, it looks strange, but the site and account are run by the state of Pennsylvania and are totally legitimate. 

Paying some of my bills directly instead would also be hugely appreciated.

Thank you!

I’m still struggling to finish my move and to get my van fixed and inspected so I can start driving for Uber and bring in some money.  I’m behind on my storage so I can’t get to what’s left of my stuff to finish selling it, behind on my car insurance, and can’t cover the deductibles to fix the body damage, inspection, or some other hopefully minor repairs, and get it detailed. Uber won’t approve me to drive without these things. I would also desperately love to get my hair cut, and a tank of gas is also critical. I’ve been surviving on credit cards but they are now all maxed. 

I would really, really, really appreciate some help covering these essential expenses. 

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Many of you already know my story, or at least part of it. I’m 66, multiply-disabled for many decades, and I have been living in a building with a really messed up elevator that rarely stops even with the floor - which is a major problem because I also use a power wheelchair.

And now I’m about to be evicted - and become homeless. 

On only $360/month in Social Security income. I have applied for SSI, but my interview isn’t until later in August. If I’m eligible, that will add a little over $800, so I might be able to qualify to rent something then. 

I fell behind on the rent during COVID, not realizing I might be eligible for the emergency relief funds, but filed when I found out I could. I am still waiting for that money, hoping and praying it will come through.

As soon as the eviction moratorium ended, my landlord filed for the back rent and/or eviction. The magistrate has held off on issuing an eviction order pending the ERAP decision, but my landlord has declined to renew my lease and gave me the required 60 days notice, so this is not a matter of just getting caught up on the rent. I absolutely *must* move.

I’m now further behind on my rent, and almost completely out of money.

I have been unable to find a new place to live that’s anywhere close to what I can afford, and that is wheelchair accessible - never mind that will accept someone with a pending eviction and otherwise shaky credit (which is another story of a rogue collection agency that keeps screwing me).

Such housing literally does not exist around here that’s currently available.

I am on tons of waiting lists for subsidized housing, but those are all literally *years* long.

I *must* be out of here at the end of July or I *will* be evicted. I *must* avoid that at all costs.

I’ve also been having trouble finding a mover - and the estimates I have received top $14,000, including packing, which is exceedingly difficult for me to do physically. If I have to put my things in storage, I will have to pay for a second move to get them out, so probably at least another $7,000 or so. No one else even has any availability.

I never dreamed this would be anywhere near this expensive, or difficult. I’m panicking.

Although I have now started trying to sell things to raise the money, I’m just out of time. I can’t do it myself, and there’s no time to get someone to organize and properly promote an estate sale for me.

I need to get my things out of here and someplace safe, then I can keep working on it. I have antiques and art that should be worth a fair amount, but it takes time for those things to sell at reasonable prices. I would lose even more money otherwise. They’re worth the cost of storage to not sell at fire sale prices.

I’ve been unable to even look for work during these past couple of years because my occupation requires being around people, and I’m at too high risk for COVID. As it has started to wane, I have been looking for work again, but to no avail.

My laptop is shot, so I’m unable to work at most things I might otherwise be able to do on my own.

I have been physically unable to look for both a home, a mover, and a job, as well as financial assistance, *and* try to list belongings to sell all at once.

It’s just impossible.

I lack the physical energy and stamina to do anywhere near enough thanks to fibromyalgia and autoimmune disease, among other things.

Depression I can’t afford to treat because I can’t afford my meds any more is dragging me down further, and a series of concussions, most recently sustained in a fall out of my building’s elevator a few years ago, have been causing me ongoing cognitive difficulties, including with focus, organization, and planning, all of which are obviously essential to this process, never mind professional employment.

Thankfully I have a good van I *could* live in for a while if need be - but that still doesn’t solve my moving problem - and it would also mean I couldn’t drive for Uber and Lyft, which had been my plan to start.

All of my energy has gone into the housing situation instead of this during the past month, and it now needs even more.

I have concluded that my only hope for the moment is to buy some kind of RV or mobile home, as they are the cheapest possible forms of housing, other than subsidized.

This is also probably the best way to deal with housing a dog as reactive as Brio is when I’m not going to be able to be home as much and won’t be able to take him with me to work, either. He would not do well at all in a big multifamily situation - and my life would be immediately at stake if I had to give him up. (He’s not actually physically at risk in all of this despite my clickbait title line - I have excellent vet insurance I can still cover, and sources for plenty of food for us both.)

I desperately need help with a down payment, though, as well as moving and a month or so of storage.

Once I’m out of this apartment and have a secure roof over my head, I can focus on selling things at a reasonable price - and working. 

My plan is to start driving for Uber, and I am starting to write a book on service dog law, with a couple of other book ideas as well. If I can get a more functional computer, there are a few other things I could do, including genealogy for hire. 

I’ve finally realized I need help for the cognitive issues, though, which I am starting to look for. 

I know this is a huge request, and I am absolutely mortified at having to ask for anything at all, but I’m desperate, and I would be forever grateful for any help anyone can give me.

Things just sort of snowballed and went from difficult (but I thought still manageable) to completely impossible almost literally overnight.