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24 points

It cost money to stay at our local shelter last I heard.

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Yeah, many of them cost 20+ a night and the beds are so limited you have to line up hours before hand to even have a chance of getting in. And then when you do get in you have to deal with violent staff, cops, extremely restrictive rules, theft, and often bedbugs.

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WTF shelters cost money? For 20 a night, save up and just get a motel room honestly, not that much more and you don’t have to deal with shelter BS. I would be sleeping in my car 5 nights a week and getting a motel 2 nights a week rather than spending money to go to a shitty place like that.

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Yeah, I didn’t know that either…

Ed. One of the shelters near me is ‘faith based’ (better love jesus), and need you to have been homeless for 6+ months before using…this is actually demonic shit though, charge the most vulnerable money they don’t have, or force them to adopt your religion

I wanna

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I didn’t have a car so I just slept outside and then got a motel room 2 days a week the first time I was homeless. Definitely the shelters are a problem that I didn’t want to deal with and couldn’t get into if I wanted to most of the time.

But also the motel costs were still like $35 a night and generally was only possible because I still had a job.

Being homeless is so costly and so stressful.

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8 points

Sounds like it’s pretty much the same across the board then.

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