It is absolutely astounding the disconnect people have about the poor or disabled subsisting off of government benefits.

Most people on SSA or SSI get around 600 dollars a month.

Please try finding a studio apartment basically anywhere in the US right now for 600 bucks a month. Or even a room with roommates for that much.

Oh right, you need to make 3x the rent so… 200 a month.

Yeah you might be able to find a parking spot for that much.

Section 8? Housing Choice Vouchers? Ah ok first navigate a maze of either bureaucratic paperwork in person, which will take basically a whole day to get one step of the process done, or good luck figuring out shit tier local government websites that are often broken or just down.

You managed to apply? Wonderful! Your estimated wait time is some unknown number of years.

‘Affordable’ Housing? Well the actually affordable ones are all occupied and the ‘Affordable’ ones require you have more or less a the area median wage, so if youre disabled or underemployed, get fucked.

Most people do not even seem to know that EBT will only buy you uncooked, non heated food.

Every meal service you see advertised on youtube? None of them take EBT.

Oh but you get discounts on phone and internet!

Haha nope, Affordable Connectivity Program ran out of money a few months ago, and anyways if you have basically ever had a non ACP phone or net plan, you couldnt have qualified anyway.

But somehow these people with barely enough income to survive as homeless are considered to be just living the easy life.