[graycat]

Your area may have several services that can keep you from being homeless. There should be some social workers good at helping people with just your problems. E.g., they may have a shelter you can use overnight. For long term housing, they may have an area, not easy to see from the main streets, with a few dozen manufactured/mobile houses with subsidized, low rents. They may have sources of food or money for food, maybe a free food credit card, and Walmart, etc. have selected basic foods for such payment means. Your area may have some essentially free basic health care -- apparently there are some quiet Federal programs that funnel money to pay for such services. Where I am, an immigrant started doing yard work mowing grass. Soon he had a truck pulling a trailer with equipment and had hired a few people. Now he has a very nice truck, trailer, and equipment -- big mower with 'sulky', leaf blowers, edge trimmers, etc., maybe > $150,000 in equipment. It looks like he is making good money, and he only works ~8 months a year. So, if could work for some such guy, could learn the details of his business and then start your own. Might help to read up a little on the botany of care and feeding of grass, flowers, trees. Shockingly, there may be more money in a grass mowing business than can expect as an employee with a BS in computer science: Such a business has some advantages, e.g., geographical barrier to entry. Get paid for the work, yes, but also for reliability, trust and generally pleasing the customers. Likely most of the candidate customers don't know much about competitive rates. In such small businesses, references stand to mean a lot. And if your area has cold winters, maybe could keep busy moving ice and snow. Tires for a car? Not so long ago, some people waited until the threads started to show! And might be able to get used tires for much less. Maybe some people for a while don't have licenses and insurance up to date. Maybe "Taxes? What taxes? I don't need no stink'n taxes!" Good luck!