How are unhoused people supposed to get a job without a permanent address? Whose going to rent to

This is a huge, huge problem as any homeless advocate can tell you.

Also - most job applications require a phone number, which is usually how you find out you’d get a job. No job, no home, no money = no phone. Used to be you could just hang out near a pay phone, but that’s not an option any more.

Also - when you are homeless, you can quickly become undocumented. Your social security card, birth certificate, drivers license can easily be lost or stolen. Then what? You need those documents to get a home.

What about suits for interviews? How do you keep them clean?

There are LOTS of barriers to getting a job when you’re homeless, beyond people’s assumptions like “work ethic” and “substance abuse.” These are really complex issues.

And when I volunteered at a homeless shelter, the biggest thing that united the people there - no family support. Either they have no family or their family is in worse shape than they are.

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01/14/2023 21:23

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Anonymous

Don't people hand out bootstraps for them to pull themselves up from?

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01/14/2023 21:28

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:They can use an address at the shelter.

No, they can’t. They are not residents at a shelter, those are all single-night stays.

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01/14/2023 21:30

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Anonymous

This affects refugees too - it was the situation the Antetokounmpo family faced as depicted in the movie Rise.

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01/14/2023 21:34

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Anonymous wrote:General Delivery addresses where you can pick up your mail
Family member’s address

This is silly. A general delivery address will signal that you are homeless, which many employers will find disqualifying because they will be worried about your stability as an employee. And you really think most homeless people have local family willing to let the person use their address for mail even though they’re not living there?

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01/14/2023 21:34

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:General Delivery addresses where you can pick up your mail
Family member’s address

Funny how you and the previous poster ignored the second question.

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01/14/2023 21:38

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Anonymous

I thought some counties give free cell phones to welfare recipients. At least in MD.

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01/14/2023 21:57

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:General Delivery addresses where you can pick up your mail
Family member’s address

This is silly. A general delivery address will signal that you are homeless, which many employers will find disqualifying because they will be worried about your stability as an employee. And you really think most homeless people have local family willing to let the person use their address for mail even though they’re not living there?

most homeless people have case managers who will help with this.

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01/15/2023 00:19

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:I thought some counties give free cell phones to welfare recipients. At least in MD.

How do you expect homeless people to reliably charge a phone?

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01/15/2023 00:20

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:General Delivery addresses where you can pick up your mail
Family member’s address

This is silly. A general delivery address will signal that you are homeless, which many employers will find disqualifying because they will be worried about your stability as an employee. And you really think most homeless people have local family willing to let the person use their address for mail even though they’re not living there?

most homeless people have case managers who will help with this.

Until their tent gets cleared and they have to move to a different part of town where their case manager doesn't work.

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01/15/2023 02:07

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:I thought some counties give free cell phones to welfare recipients. At least in MD.

Or they just pay for the phone with their begging proceeds. Some have nice androids and burn through the data binge watching Breaking Bad on Neflix.

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01/15/2023 02:19

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Anonymous

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:General Delivery addresses where you can pick up your mail
Family member’s address

This is silly. A general delivery address will signal that you are homeless, which many employers will find disqualifying because they will be worried about your stability as an employee. And you really think most homeless people have local family willing to let the person use their address for mail even though they’re not living there?

most homeless people have case managers who will help with this.

This is not true.

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