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chronicallycouchbound · 9 months

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Let People On Food Stamps Eat Hot Meals

Particularly on cold, rainy days (like today), while unhoused, sometimes all I want is a hot meal but it’s so difficult (if not impossible) to cook outside in the rain.

On top of this, I’m physically disabled and chronically ill. Medically, I’m supposed to have assistance with making meals as part of in home care. But I can’t get in home care without a home.

I just finished making dinner for my partner and I, it took 2 hours (3 if you include clean up). My knees are burning, my back is aching in it’s core, I feel like I’m about to faint, and all my joints are screaming. But it’s the only way we could have a hot meal today and get some protein, which is vital for our health conditions.

People judge us for using what little funds we have on McDonald’s some days. Because sometimes, it’s the only hot meal we’ve had in days. And sometimes I’m physically unable to stand, move, and do all the actions needed to cook. Or I faint while cooking. Or the rain doesn’t let up. Or we don’t have access to a kitchen for the day. Or the fire danger outside is too high. The list goes on.

Without my own kitchen to use, I don’t get to sit down while I cook (right now, everything is wet from the rain), I can’t meal prep, I can’t stock up on freezer meals, I can’t use an oven or a microwave to reheat leftovers, I can’t just reach across the kitchen for a fridge item (we have a small amount of fridge space friends let us use), everything about cooking is exponentially harder.

And even if I had 24/7 access to an accessible, full kitchen, it’s not even physically safe to cook my own meals. Even then, having a pre-made, hot, ready-to-eat meal could keep me safe and give me independance.

And all the safety needs for hot meals aside, emotionally, hot meals are also life saving and comfort. Meals are a part of community, culture, love and art.

So many gatherings we have as communities center around food. Most people in the United States would think of ones that often hold great value to Western culture. Mother’s Day breakfast. Spaghetti fundraisers. Wedding cakes. Birthday dinners. Bake sales. Carnival treats. BBQs on weekends. Holiday roasts. Lunches with friends. Casseroles brought to grieving neighbors.

Our world revolves around food.

I firmly believe that no poor person could ever “take advantage” of a system designed to feed us by using food stamps on hot food. This restrictive rule serves no purpose but to punish the most vulnerable of poor people— unhoused, disabled, and those of us living in unsafe conditions.

It also serves to restrict our access to joy and comfort. The joy can sometimes come from the food itself, but also the joy from having shared experiences solidified by the sounds of laughter and forks clinking on plates. The comfort can sometimes also be from the food itself, but also the experience of being loved and cared for while your close friend brings you pizza from your favorite restaurant because you lost your drive to eat three weeks ago and they worry about you. They know you. Those slices of pizza bring color back into your world.

Poor people deserve to be able to have the comfort, joy, and care that goes into a hot meal. We deserve the autonomy to choose foods that are best for us ourselves. We deserve to be able to eat in ways that are accessible to us.

Above all, we deserve access to hot meals.

Originally posted to my blog on 6.3.22

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typhlonectes · 9 months

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#houseless #homelessness #poverty #socialism #politics #USA #memes #housing

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kitty-does-stuff · 5 months

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We are a queer trans disabled family we have been on the street for a year. We need 450 for bills & an overdraft, we also have barely any food and need money for that

Donate

Ko-fi.com/kittydoesstuff

#mutual aid #mutual funds #donation #donation post #homelessness #homeless #houseless #queer #trans #disabled #nurodivergent

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tuliptiger · 4 months

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Hi uh I started a GoFundMe for myself.

https://gofund.me/001e1417

My paypal is dragongard87 @ gmail . com

Long story short for the last 2 years I've been trying to build a house.

I'm generationally and personally poor. I make roughly $36,000 and that's if I'm allowed to work the full year since I'm a temporary seasonal employee.

The last contractor I had working on it for 1 and 1/2 years lied to me, wasted materials, was inexperienced and didn't let me know when things got bad. I'm pursuing legal action but it's expensive and time consuming.

I've been living in my car since April to try and make this work. Not only were his mistakes wasted time and effort but it was a lot of wasted money I wasn't expecting. I started working with a second contractor and he's been great so far but gave me an estimate of redoing the foundation. It ended up being double the price by the end and he didn't give me a heads up towards the end.

That's the general situation. I hate doing this, I know it's towards the end of the year and Christmas so people are pretty tapped out for money. I'm at the lowest point I could be and please know I wouldn't ask if I wasn't desperate. I already took out a personal loan and have 2 jobs, my family is poor and can't help.

Any help or sharing of this is greatly appreciated. Likes are honestly appreciated too and at least I know I'm not shouting into the great expanse. Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope everyone has a good end of year/new year.

#words #gofundme #donation #donations #help #assistance #financial aid #financial help #emergency #accident #i don't even know what to call this #community help #woof #poverty #house #home #building #homeless #houseless

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macksting · 3 months

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Also, apparently the company that moved our stuff is now holding it hostage because we weren't quick enough finding other storage options, so if we don't come up with 2000 dollars, they'll auction off all our earthly possessions. (That 2k includes the cost to move it to cheaper storage.) I am not dealing very well with this knowledge. I would cope with this by making coffee, but I have recently been in close contact with someone who was just diagnosed with COVID, so I can't really responsibly use the communal kitchen building of the homeless camp we're living in. I probably have to just bite the bullet and do it anyway, as I need food to take my meds with. I am not having a great day.

#unhoused #homeless #houseless #so this sucks

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fenmere · 5 days

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New Homelessness Subreddit

Are you houseless or homeless and looking for solidarity and peer support?

Are you someone looking to help and support the general houseless/homeless population?

A friend of ours who is homeless has started a subreddit for that purpose. It is absolutely brand new, and could use some community members to make it something useful and good.

#homeless #homelessness #houseless #resources

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orthodoxadventure · 5 months

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Crisis have launched their 2023 Fundraiser Campaign A gift of £29.73 to Crisis at Christmas could give someone who's homeless:

Help with a safe place to stay

Hot meals and a Christmas dinner

Access to health and wellbeing programmes

Support to leave homelessness behind for good

You can access the fundraiser here:

https://www.crisis.org.uk/get-involved/donate-to-crisis-at-christmas/

#fundraiser #charity #homelessness #houseless #christianity

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veganpsychedelephant · 9 months

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#houseless #peace #safety #social constructs

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thefreethoughtprojectcom · 23 days

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What’s really going on here? Why is the Biden administration so obsessed with using taxpayer dollars to fund a massive influx of illegal immigrants into the country at a time when America already has high rates of poverty?

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/the-state/with-americans-homeless-biden-admin-and-religious-ngos-spend-millions-on-migrants

#TheFreeThoughtProject #TFTP

#the free thought project #tftp #police state #homeless #homelessness #houseless #america #biden #migrants #immigration #NGOs #taxation is theft

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chronicallycouchbound · 7 months

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Disabled joy looks like me zooming down the streets in my powerchair at full speed, fall leaves crunching under my wheels.

18 year old me, sobbing as I was forced to crawl up the ice-coated steps of the local youth homeless shelter, could have never dreamed of this.

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geezerwench · 3 months

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Pastor Charged With Housing Homeless in Church Sparks Fury

Somethin' different. Pastor is being harassed and persecuted for ...

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acting in a Christ-like manner.

Had he been sexually assaulting children, they'd protect him to the bitter end.

#homeless #houselessness #houseless #church offering sanctuary #sanctuary #Ohio

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typhlonectes · 5 months

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#poverty #memes #politics #homeless #homelessness #houseless

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kitty-does-stuff · 7 months

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Homeless family, winter coming and our car is breaking down.

Okay hello, you can look up kitty says stuff tag for a detailed version of my story but in short my family had to evacuate our home for our safety. That was late last year.

Right now we are dealing with a truck with a broken window and a flat tire, we are at a campsite right now but it is closing very soon.

We have bills for storage and winterizing our small living spaces (truck & no water or power camper). We also have very little food.

These are just our immediate needs, long-term we are also dealing with health issues and are trying to get into a place.

If you would like to help you can dm for paypal or donate at my kofi

https://ko-fi.com/kittydoesstuff

#homelessness #homeless #donation #mutual funds #mutual aid #houselessness #houseless #kitty says stuff

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tuliptiger · 3 months

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Living in my car, homeless talk. Read at your owwwwn discretion. No other warnings though

I'm sure many people have seen this but memory foam in the cold DOES become very stiff if not completely solid. It also slowly molds into your body from the heat so that's pretty neat.

Also more of a safety? Tip. You CAN be too warm in the cold, I have not figured out a way to beat this. Both for heat reasons and for the moisture it produces, I'm getting too hot and sweating too much in like 10 degree weather and it's kind of wild.

This has not caused any issues whatsoever...that I know of........other than a very minor very mild discomfort. I try and drink extra water to negate that and stretch when I can.

Keeping relatively healthy and fit is, from what I have heard, a pretty important part of regulating body temp on the higher side of things. I am also fat, no medical issues, just my body type and that may also help with the insulation part but I am also relatively fit. My job is active hiking in the good weather seasons and I do get wellness time to work out when I want as an addition.

I don't want to leave anything out that might be pertinent but yeah, tonight's observations and thoughts. If anyone is curious...about some aspects of living in a car I would not mind answering any either btw. I've been at this since April 2023 from 8 degrees to 113 so I've been through the range so far.

#words #homeless #car living #living in car #houseless #uhm idk what else to tag this as #car camping

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thatquietsong · 1 year

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systemserendipity · 7 days

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Please donate to our friend's cause-- they need help. As an LGBT+ person, we've been in this same position before and it ain't fun.

#queer #lgbt #help #money help #bump #boost #assist #support #financial support #gofundme #queer support #lgbt support #houselessness #homelessness #homeless #kicked out #houseless

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