Lived experience: Housing crisis
Because there tends to be quite the gap between how things are supposed to work and how they actually work
Please note: Just because any of the below does not match your own experience or that of your nearest or dearest, doesn’t mean it’s okay to invalidate my or anyone else’s lived experience. You are not the default, and even if you were: yes, and? So?
Reproducing what I posted several weeks ago on Bluesky, as I posted it there, typos and other (glaring) errors included, because I don’t currently have the emotional or physical strength to re-tell this and find myself at best interrupted or at worst invalidated.
(Update added at the very end of the thread.)
Update: Eventually I did qualify for and receive emergency support, and in the period in between qualifying and receiving I was kept safe thanks to people’s generosity. Words cannot express my immense gratitude for the support I received.
Some of you may read this and argue that I deserved none of the help I received. And, you know, you might be right in that assertion; I am very aware and very grateful.
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