Posted on 08/22/2022 7:52:03 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Jada Riley thought she had beaten homelessness.
The 26-year-old New Orleans resident was finally making a steady income cleaning houses during the pandemic to afford a $700-a-month, one-bedroom apartment. But she lost nearly all her clients after Hurricane Ida hit last year. Then she was fired from a grocery store job in February after taking time off to help a relative.
Two months behind on rent, she made the difficult decision last month to leave her apartment rather than risk an eviction judgment on her record. Now, she's living in her car with her 6-year-old son, sometimes spending nights at the apartments of friends or her son's father.
“I've slept outside for a whole year before. It's very depressing, I'm not going to lie,” said Riley, who often doesn't have enough money to buy gas or afford food every day.
“I don't want to have my son experience any struggles that I went through.”
Eviction filings nationwide have steadily risen in recent months and are approaching or exceeding pre-pandemic levels in many cities and states. That's in stark contrast to the pandemic, when state and federal moratoriums on evictions, combined with $46.5 billion in federal Emergency Rental Assistance, kept millions of families housed.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcphiladelphia.com ...
Looks that way to me as well. Pay your rent ‘First’ - always.
Bingo. The last year of no border has created MILLIONS of new people who need housing. An obvious exacerbator of less rentals for Americans that nobody has the stones to mention.
You turned the focus to fathers, and proceeded to smear them. I am for more than a decade, a single solo father of a teen son. I take offense at what you did.
The only legit point made in this thread was made in #36 by zeestephen, and I gave him credit in #39.
Your post was one of “my sh*t don’t stink”; take it elsewhere, not here
First thing I thought when reading the article. Why the hell isn’t the kid living with his father?
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Why do you think he’s any better off than the mother?
First thing I thought when reading the article. Why the hell isn’t the kid living with his father?
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Why do you think he’s any better off than the mother?
Where is the father in all of this? I know he is alive based on the article. I’m sure there’s more to the story but most fathers wouldn’t allow their six-year-old sons to be homeless and sleep in cars with the mother.
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Why do you think he’s any better off than the mother?
Why isn’t the father the custodial parent?
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Why do you think he’s any better off than the mother?
For one thing ... He has a place to live.
For one thing ... He has a place to live.
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Are you using another source? This one doesn’t say that.
I cited the relevant quote in Post #2.
Please read the article.
I cited the relevant quote in Post #2.
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I did read the article. Just because she and the children sometimes stay with the husband’s friends, in no way does it even imply that he has permanent residence with those friends or that he and two children would be welcome as long term guests.
No offense, but do you need an updated prescription for your glasses?
Before that: don’t have a kid, unmarried.
That too. But there’s more to this story then what she’s revealed. She said she was homeless before so apparently she’s been down the road she’s on previously and doesn’t appear to have learned from it. I get the sense she doesn’t handle her money well.
I'd bet daddy has multiple children with several different baby mommas, making such "nuclear family" living arrangements complicated.
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