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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always feel worse when I see a homeless person with a dog.[/quote]

There's  a young homeless man in my hood with a dog always asking me for cash or toilitries.  He was outed by the staff at my front desk.  he receives $900.00 a month in benefits and chooses to live on the street. He's  always asking to charge his phone in the lobby and he told the staff about his monthly checks
 and yet he still is homeless.[/quote]

How does someone pay rent and basic utilities for $900/mo?[/quote]

Yeah, $900 is the monthly SSI payment for a disabled adult with no real work history.  It’s really hard to find housing on that.  I had a client years ago that was splitting a one bedroom with another disabled person — but the other person ended up attacking her and so she had to leave and could not find an apartment (including paying first and last and security deposit) on that monthly check.  She was on a wait list for subsidized housing.  The SSI amounts are great if you have 3-4 family members receiving them (hence the scams in some places where people get all their kids on SSI) but they are t sufficient for a single adult.  We need higher subsidies and/or more things like rooming houses.[/quote]

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