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Far outside of my lived experience, but, here’s a take anyway.

Your priorities sound out of line with your current financial reality.

Concretely, you’re struggling with $890 in car costs that your current income depends on and asking how to escape homelessness. The crappy reality is that you need to maximize the safety of your one existing income stream ahead of nearly everything else. That means building up an emergency fund for car repairs.

Free cash flow, a well maintained car and a savings/emergency fund are the biggest lifelines you will be able to give yourself in the near term.

If you can get a programming job or a cheap laptop (sub $200 old Thinkpad on eBay) and start picking up some freelancing work you can do in a public library or similar, that’s amazing, but for now you’re really all in on your car and it sounds like you need to focus on that until it’s safe and stable.

Hopefully if you’re frugal, not too unlucky and do your best you’ll have more options in a few months.

This sucks and I really hope things get better for you.