Tag: housing
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Huge News!
I’ll just drop this bomb first thing: I’m no longer homeless! Unbelievable, right? I can hardly fathom the fact that I’m even writing this post right now, and writing it from my new home as well. A significant portion of me feels terror that at any moment, I will wake up in the van, covered…
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Told to Leave
Perhaps it will come as a surprise to those reading this, but this morning it happened to me for the first time. The occupant of the house we had parked the RV nearest to came out and approached my vanmate and I as we were sitting and hanging out together in her van. He asked…
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A General Update (and a small rant)
Hello to anyone reading, and I hope that you’re having a decent day. Now that it’s been a few days since we got that RV, I feel like I can go into a bit more detail about what it’s like spending time and sleeping in it. The long and short of it is that, as…
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First Night in the RV!
Yesterday was a very busy day, spent doing errands around town and getting supplies for starting the intimidating task of fixing up the vehicle, as well as making it home. Fortunately, back when we were about to lose our housing seven months ago, we were able to prepare by renting a storage unit, which means…
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It’s Not Always Terrible: A Reflection
Sometimes I scroll back through my posts on this blog, and recently I’ve noticed that, understandably, most of my writing is kind of emotionally heavy. This is mostly intentional because my experiences being homeless for the past few months have cemented my beliefs that housing is a human right, that no one should be treated…
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A Big Step
Here I am again with another update, one that I’m excited about against all my strongest instincts telling me that optimism won’t end well. After being rejected from the apartment complex and coming to the dreadful realization that other housing would probably turn us away for the same “reason”, I turned to Craigslist. Browsing that…
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Bad News, As Usual
Here I am again with another update to the situation, and as you can see from the title, it’s unfortunately not good news. Good news is hard to come by these days, especially good news that stays that way instead of souring like milk later on, such as the couch surf. This news seems like…
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It’s Official!
It’s official: I’m homeless. Yesterday and the days preceding were filled with packing stuff into a trailer, moving our most valued things to the storage unit, and then going back and doing it again. We–my roommates and I– were working at it almost until our final deadline to get out at 11:59 last night. We…
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Why Am I (about to be) Homeless?
If you read my introductory post, you’re likely to have some questions about it and about me. This one seems like the most natural place to start. The answer is not simple, and it won’t be easy for me to talk about, but I think that it will help to illuminate and reflect on why…
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Introduction
Hello and happy New Year to anyone reading this! I go by a few names, but for the purpose of this blog, I’m Fern, and you can refer to me with they/them pronouns. I have many interests and mostly untouched hobbies, including drawing and painting, writing (this is my first project in years!), entomology, birding,…