Posted on 09/24/2022 7:08:16 PM PDT by willk
— From homeless to homeowner: that's the story of one single mother living in Stockton.
After more than four years of living on the streets, Amber Golisano and her son finally have a place to call home.
Advertisement "I did a lot of couch surfing. We stayed in a few abandoned buildings, a lot of really nasty hotels or motels more like it," said Golisano explaining what life was like leading up to this moment.
She says she felt like she had hit rock bottom after her toxic relationship came to an end.
“He used all my money. He broke down my car. He took my last $100 and left me with furniture literally on the lawn with the sprinklers coming on before we were about to be evicted," Golisano said.
She says she was also struggling with drug addiction because of her ex and had nowhere to turn. But, just a few years later, she gave birth to her son, Elliot, which became a turning point in her life.
"I got to the point where I was like, 'I can't do this with a child.' It wasn’t about me anymore and I needed to do something and be better for him," Golisano
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Article said she bought a 3 BR house……not a trailer.
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"I got to the point where I was like, 'I can't do this with a child.' It wasn’t about me anymore and I needed to do something and be better for him," Golisano said.Good for her. She decided to do something for her son rather than herself.
The article is short on details like her job and how did she get enough for a downpayment on a house.
When you see a homeless person out on the streets, they have usually worn out their welcome at all their family and friends’ homes. They have been given hand-outs, hand-ups, and many opportunities to get back on their feet. Most family and friends will now not even return their call because they have been screwed over with promises too many times. It’s costly and emotionally draining so by the time you realize you can’t help the person, you cut them off completely.
Sounds like someone who needed some help until she could help herself. Isn't that how charity works best?
What you said is mostly true, but of course, not always.
I do know of one family where they still try to help one mentally ill brother. He is paranoid-schizophrenic and doesn’t like how the meds make him feel. So he prefers to be on the street for his survival. He uses burned phones because he doesn’t trust that he isn’t being listened to by TPTB. They can’t call him. He won’t answer. Every now and again he will reach out to them, sometimes for money, and sometimes he’s in the mood just to say hi.
They haven’t given up him monetarily or otherwise, but I know this is a far outlier for most of the homeless. It still is by choice though. They live this way because they want to.
I wonder what the mortgage application said? “Homeless for years with drug problems”. No problem! ☺
This woman was a drug user, presumably while pregnant. But, everything is her ex’s fault. Is she doing therapy to find out why she is so f*cked up? 10-1 she will lose her home to one of next freeloading boyfriends.
Yes, these stories happen.
A guy I knew from church sold crack cocaine in the 1980’s. His gang bought an expensive suburban home as a stash house and kept the coke under the floorboards.
Then one day they DEA and local and state LE moved in. The first thing they did was pull up the floorboards and there is stash was to all to see.
He spent eighteen years in the pen learning how to farm.
After he got out he plowed farmers’ fields, applied the pesticides and herbicides then harvested the corn, rice and wheat. He had no intention on ever being locked up again. He went clean.
He was a black dude and married a while woman who was a rehabilitated addict and prostitute. They kept their noses clean.
Having worked with the homeless a lot my guesstimate is these types of people represent about 10% of their population.
The other 90% have no motivation to change. They cannot be helped. No do-gooder can change this. Sorry.
You get roughly 10%, that’s it.
Schizophrenic people do not have a choice. I have no problem in helping homeless people who are psychotic. This is what government is should be doing. Protecting people who can’t protect themselves out of no fault of their own.
Government policies have left so many poor souls to drift ever further into dysfunctional madness.
Especially in Ca.
I stand corrected. I forgot to mention that the article talks about a realtor who found her a home free of charge. Since when do realtors charge buyers to find a home? Do journalists do any research these days? Look. I am really hard on journalists. Just look at my tagline. Our country really depends on journalists. I am really concerned that they have been brainwashed in school to the point of becoming total leftists. Remember that woman who asked President Trump why he called it the China Virus? “That’s racist!”. She’s the poster child of what is wrong with journalists today.
There are vast numbers of people living on the streets and in the woods. Nearly all are there by choice.
It’s a LOT better having a local charity helping her out than the federal government. She can be independent and free of the damned government that would want to own her forever.
YOu should read the link, then read the Hope Ministries website. It gives you all the details. ProTip- she walked a lot until she proved her determination and was given a car. The car enabled her to seek better employment further from home. She now makes $22 p/h. She saves a lot. She saved all her tax refunds and stimulus checks. That’s how she saved the down payment for the house.
The ministry doesn’t accept people who test positive for drugs—doing this makes them ineligible for federal funds. So instead, private donors, etc., make up their budget balance.
This ministry has a 45% success rate of placing people in rentals, compared to other agencies’ 10% rate.
Amazing what you can find once you realize that Reading is FUNdemental!!
Yup. Thanks for the story.
“YOu should read the link, then read the Hope Ministries website.”
Hey, if she is really doing good then I hope she is successful in the rest of her life.
Probably because honest journalism is a tedious and sometimes dangerous blue-collar sort of profession that involves long hours and leads that peter out and sources who don't always provide consistent information. Providing reliable (if sometimes boring) accurate and timely news isn't glamorous and doesn't pay very well. It's much more romantic and high-minded and noble to be an advocate.
There are realtors for buyers and they charge……who really knows in this case.
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