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Here's my experience: My father was an alcoholic who drank himself almost to death in his mobile home. He was bankrupt, malnourished and no longer able to walk when neighbors called an ambulance. (He kept me at arms' distance because I tried to get him to stop drinking. I lived 4 hours away, and saw him a few times a year, and called him weekly. )

Because he was no longer drinking, he eventually was able to leave, but had no place to go. His mobile home and been seized. We would have been within our rights to just write him off, but I couldn't live with myself if he ended up on the street. So we ended up buying him a small, inexpensive, plain condo in a rural part of Florida where he was surrounded by good elderly services. We brought in meals on wheels, furnished the apartment and gave him an old car to get to the grocery store and the doctor.

When he died, we were able to sell the condo for more than twice what we paid for it. We put the savings in my son's college fund.

So we were able to take care of my dad, have him not live with us, and it ended up benefitting my son. Us, too, because as I said, I could have never been happy if he was out on the street.

OP, your in-laws have no right to expect to live with you. That's just outrageous. I'd put together my Plan B, though, for ways to see that they are never homeless.

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