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A situation like that is almost unimaginable. Sounds like a potential idea for a startup/app though. If the author got together with another homeless person the

• mcherm 10y ago
  I really like your approach: hear a problem, extend sympathy, but also propose a possible solution. Obviously your proposed solution has a lot of possible problems, but that doesn't mean they can't be solved.
• fencepost 10y ago
  Odds are good that she'll end up with a shared apartment, but she's already done that once (though not starting out with someone else homeless) and it didn't work out well. I suspect the biggest problem with finding another homeless person or two to share an apartment with is what she already ran into - for a lot of homeless there are mental health issues that may have led to them being homeless in the first place. Many who are homeless also are going to have a hard time covering even part of the cost of an apartment, particularly since it's going to be harder to find and keep a job without having a permanent place to stay in the first place. Finally, I suspect that many cities have limitations on how many unrelated adults can live in a single residential unit - something that for many it'd be easy to ignore, but for a small group of people it could make it very difficult to secure an initial lease unless one of the group members was able to demonstrate the resources to get the lease on their own anyway.