I hate trying to find housing as a disabled person
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- Опубліковано 1 тра 2024
- Hello everyone! Thank you for watching this week's video. In this video I talk about my experience as an ambulatory wheelchair user, touring different apartment trying to find one that is semi-accessible. Unfortunately, that is much easier said than done. Especially as a service dog handler.
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I am not sure why this showed up on my feed, but I am currently facing the same problem. I am a wheelchair user and my current duplex is barely usable. I can’t use the kitchen at all. I have to have help to get into the bathroom. I was not this disabled when we moved in. Things have gotten worse as autoimmune issues do and I broke my foot and now am unable to be weight bearing on it anymore. There are accessible duplexes which are new and very accessible, but they are income based and I make too much money. Everything else that is barely better than this and I would need help and constantly struggle to be independent daily are extremely expensive. I hate spending so much more to get a tiny amount of more access. Good luck with your search and new career path.
Trying to find out which apartments were accessible in the rental *and* social housing markets was so difficult that I literally just bought somewhere. Most people don't even know getting a mortgage on benefits (Scotland) is even POSSIBLE and yet it was infinitely easier than navigating renting. Why is it that rented accommodation never specifies what floor something is on??? But buying they do. Also wtf why is getting a mortgage on benefits easier than being an eligible & competitive tenant. I mean it worked out well for me but my gods what the hell
I know a few years ago when I was looking for a place to rent around Oxford, I found 2 bedroom places where cheaper than 1 bedroom places, as everyone wanted 1 bedroom places
Disabled constellation is such a cute name
Thank you! I chose it because I’m a collection of illnesses, experiences, and stories. But I also like to think that we (the disability community) are all a part of a great story. We, collectively, create constellations.
I spent 3 years and 4 months homeless with my emotional support dog on SSDI with PTSD, suicidal ideation, severe anxiety before I was able to get section 8 and then because of my dogs breed not her behavior I was discriminated against by all these apartments that were supposed to accept us the way they accepted Federal money to build their places. I lived a shack with a wood stove and was given 300 dollars worth of green wood by the state as fuel assistance and it wouldn’t burn because you can’t burn green wood in a cold stove so I became a prostitute to get $ to buy those dura logs to burn wood when it was 20 below out living in an uninsulated shack with an outhouse. I still had to pay that slum lord 500 a month which was a third of my Ssdi check. It’s a mean world for sure. Dog eat dog and they are not going to rent to the poor unless they have no other choices. Oh well this is America and my great great grandfather fought for this country in World War I and his 5 sons my great uncle’s fought in World War Two and my Dad fought in Korea and his brother in Vietnam and all of our rights are being taken away in the Supreme Court as I write this, the greatest judiciary minds in the country are debating this - Is it a crime to be homeless? NO! NO! It is not a crime! Even if they say it is. If you can’t find a nice person you can always be one. Best of luck.
Been homeless for 16 years in San Francisco now. Leave. Walk or roll your wheelchair away from where you live, where there is winter & walk or roll here. Get on a bus or plane to make it even easier to get here. It never gets below 35°f. Yes, you will languish on the housing wait lists forever. But you can get into a single room occupancy room where you share a bathroom with a bunch of people. That's pretty easy to get into.You could probably get into that within the first three years of being here. I just don't want that kind of housing.That's why I refuse it because I can't share a bathroom with anyone I have urinarian bowel urge in continents issues and stuff like that I don't need to be sharing a bathroom with anyone especially a bunch of behaviorally disordered people who tend to commandeer the bathroom So they can do their drugs in there with whatever prostitute or whatever person that they are friends with from the street that doesn't belong in the building, etc. But yeah, come out here. It's so much easier to be homeless here or to live in a shack or whatever you are saying. Walk or roll if you have to. You will never look back
Welcome to america. Where the rich get what they need and the poor are told "f#ck you, You don't deserve it!"
I am planning on moving to Vermont once my dog passes on. I do have section 8 now but it took 3 years and 4 months and being disabled and homeless made it less but I could have died many times in those 3 years and 4 months. I’m not in a wheelchair. If it wasn’t for prostitution, I would be completely destitute instead of just living in poverty.
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I'm an autistic wheelchair user with PTSD my worst nightmare is a 1st floor apartment. I wish more people understood this aspect of disability. First floor is an inundation of sounds. I feel like I can't get away and I'm holed up in a cave.
I'm just looking for anything period, it shouldn't be that way at all. I'm homeless due to being on medicaid and disability.
It shouldn’t be this way!! I’m so sorry.
get on the internet, look up independent living, and add your town. they are wheelchair accessible and usually affordable housing. im pretty sure all service dogs are allowed. hope that help sweetheart.
- you can also report apartment buildings that are not wheelchair accessible to the ADA!
What's ur major? What type of job do u hope to get after ur doctorate?
I study communication studies with a focus in marginalized communities resilience and resistance. I want to go into academics and research.