Fantastic news!
Went to CitySquare (an organization that helps the homeless and other low-income residents of Dallas) yesterday to meet with a case manager... turns out I've known her for about 10 years or so. I'd forgotten she worked there.
We had a long talk, I caught her up on what was going on with my ex-roommate (whom she also knows well), and she's going to do everything she can to get me housing through the Rapid Rehousing program. (Normally you have to have been homeless for a total of 12 months over a three year period OR for 12 months straight -- what's known as "chronically homeless" -- to qualify for Section 8, but she's going to try to work around it.)
The only problem will be finding a place that will accept Section 8 vouchers. For some reason, according to my friend-cum-case manager, even the worst dumps in the city (where she already knows I don't want to live, lol) don't want to take them. So I definitely won't find immediate housing. But we'll get there! I'll just be spending a little (read: a lot) more time sleeping behind the duplex or on the porch at Bonhoeffer House. But as with so many other things, I'll deal.
We had a long talk, I caught her up on what was going on with my ex-roommate (whom she also knows well), and she's going to do everything she can to get me housing through the Rapid Rehousing program. (Normally you have to have been homeless for a total of 12 months over a three year period OR for 12 months straight -- what's known as "chronically homeless" -- to qualify for Section 8, but she's going to try to work around it.)
The only problem will be finding a place that will accept Section 8 vouchers. For some reason, according to my friend-cum-case manager, even the worst dumps in the city (where she already knows I don't want to live, lol) don't want to take them. So I definitely won't find immediate housing. But we'll get there! I'll just be spending a little (read: a lot) more time sleeping behind the duplex or on the porch at Bonhoeffer House. But as with so many other things, I'll deal.