"The city's Department of Homeless Services in November tried to reduce the number of individual men and women seeking a bed at a city shelter by requiring them to prove they had nowhere else to go, a move the city council speaker described as "cruel and punitive." The policy would require adults seeking shelter to provide information, including documents where possible, about their recent housing history and financial resources."
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I stayed at a shelter in the San Fernando Valley after I went through just about all the money I had ever had or saved and was shocked to have roommates and meet other residents there who had done things like put their house in a child's name so they could "go homeless" and get veteran's benefits, or who had children who owned homes and wanted them to live with them but refused. It was so unfair that these people got Section 8 vouchers and Rapid Rehousing Funds while many of the rest of us who were truly destitute waited, wondering when we'd get kicked out!
At the shelter I stayed at a few years ago most of the other residents were criminals and looking to get their SSI, even if they had to lie to doctors and psychiatrists. One of them came back doped up like a zombie in order to be taken into a group home. People told me to do it to. Anything instead of the streets. Pissed me off! M
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