About to be homeless...

[Miss LXC 2.0]

I am At-the-moment homeless and IN San Francisco. If you are willing to ask the shelters for all, I mean ALL the help you need, then you can turn it all around. GLIDE @ 330  Elis St. is a good starting point. Once you get entered into the system there you are in the whole system citywide!
Its was rough in the beginning but it beats the streets of anywhere in this whole country.
Unless you have had top surgery, FTMs and MTFs are better off at the womens shelters. Any shelter can in-process you into the system. After you get into a 90-day bed then you can work without worry from being bounced from shelter to shelter.
Really its not bad if you don't mind accepting that you Need help and its ok to start at the bottom.
Hugs~

[PanoramaIsland]

Yeah, Glide is awesome. That's an excellent suggestion.

[tekla]

Yeah, except that homeless in San Francisco, with minimal skills is rolling a set of dice with one possible good outcome, and eleven really, really bad outcomes.

[jesse]

im sorry this happened to you it did me too at 14 please be very careful i was attacted and left for dead in a field luckily i survived the streets are very dangerous there has been alot of good advice offered on this thread already take head of it hun
good luck jessica

[PanoramaIsland]

Well yeah, Tekla. I was saying that Glide is great, not that being homeless in SF is great.

[tekla]

Yeah, well you can easily form a panel debate on Glide in SF, and on Rev. Williams at Glide itself where most of the actual congregation and the deacons (or whatever they are) have been trying to get him to leave for a while now and strongly want to try to pursue a different course.  I work down the street from there and its not without problems.  But for sure, the line for the free breakfast runs about a block and half (corner to corner) at 8 am.  So that a lot of people needing help.

I can't help but to think that moving across the county and across several cultures (and coming to SF from Georgia might as well be moving to Mars in that sense) to wind up in a place where you don't know anyone, and where jobs are very, very hard to find, and everyone is way overqualified, so even the basic jobs are tough without skills and such are hard to get, and even if you do, you can't live in SF on minimum wage.  Even a SRO room in a roach infested, drug ridden hotel with crack whores as your neighbors (like the places around Glide) is going to run you over 500 a month.

And the social services are fading fast in SF.  The City is broke, the state even more so, and there just is not the money for them anymore.  So if you can a) stay closer to home, or b) move here with resources it might turn out better.

[PanoramaIsland]

Oh, see, I don't know anything of the politics around Glide or Rev. Cecil Williams. I do wonder, though - if they want to take it in a different direction, what different direction do they wish to take it in? Certainly not away from social services, I hope?

But yeah, Glide aside, I don't think I would endorse coming all the way to SF - not without some real resources, at any rate.

[Miss LXC 2.0]

Its almost a week since and I have learned that the shelters Are a shell game-but not impossible. If you also lie about history of substance abuse and submit to weekly testing they have more services available.
Youth shelters usually go for 24 and under and probably better to do.
Myself Hiv neg and no drugs makes people slower to jump to your rescue.
A Womens Place 1049 Howard (between 6&7) is one of the better shelters. Get into Transitional housing ASAP.
Also, be careful not to leave your wallet out or share ssn and other stuff sparingly: the people that prey on taking personal information are anyone here.
hugs