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by DoreenMichele 2243 days ago
I spent nearly six years homeless. I got back into housing about 2.5 years ago. I started multiple websites while homeless and I still run multiple websites, some of which are pertinent to this problem space.

This comment seems to list all my homeless sites:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22804929

2020 is proving especially challenging for the homeless population. The pandemic has made things very hard for homeless people of late.

Libraries are currently closed in many places, as are eateries with wifi and so forth. Some shelters and soup kitchens have shut down during the pandemic. It's pretty brutal at the moment.

But things like tablets are cheaper than when I first became homeless and websites are generally optimized to work well on smartphones and tablets, which was not true when I was first on the street. So there are ways in which it is easier than ever to figure out how to problem solve and create an income from the street and get your life back.

U will throw in this piece, which I didn't write but it's about me:

Homeless to housed: Her virtual life helped her out of homelessness

http://alexandralindelof.com/story-package/

1 comments

Thank you for the reading material. I believe I'm going to find myself in a similar situation soon and having those resources could really improve my chances of recovery.
Check out r/gigworks as well. It's listed in the sidebar of some of those sites and I run it.

If you can at all avoid homelessness, that's better. I have seen many conversations on r/homeless and r/almosthomeless where people said "I expect to be homeless in x weeks/months" and were encouraged to find answers before their time ran out and they did. It's much, much easier to problem solve while still housed.

If homelessness absolutely cannot be avoided, make sure to read the following posts before it's too late (because things like getting a mailing address beforehand is very helpful):

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2018/05/prepping-to...

https://streetlifesolutions.blogspot.com/2019/10/climate-and...

Best of luck.