Sammy’s Housing Support Story

Do you have a dollar to catch the bus by chance? Do you have a dollar to catch the bus by chance? Yes. You do?

I'm sorry to bother you. You don't have to be sorry. What's your name? Samantha.

I'm Josh. Nice to meet you, Josh. Yeah, nice to meet you. Is everything okay?

I don't know if you're going through something. Yeah. Just keep your head up, okay? Are you going through something?

Everybody's going through something in one way or another. It's all good. I hope you have a home. I have a home, please.

Is everything going okay? Um I'm yes, no. I mean I'm I'm I'm I'm at home, but not for for my father. They gave me kind of a very short time frame to to be out, but because we're on this side.

It's a long story, but You don't have enough money to pay or I owe rent. To pay the rent now. I know. So, what are you going to do?

Well, I've been looking for work like crazy. So, you don't have a place to live. Um I I don't, but I I I got options. I'm just hoping that they give me a little more longer than Saturday, you know, it's time to go somewhere.

What's your dream? Just to be Is anybody happy? It had a stable home. A stable home.

Have you had a stable home? I was living with my mother. And so I don't want to go home now, but she took her own life and that's why I'm so sorry. They didn't mean to.

I don't know what what depression, anxiety, and all that does to a person. For you or for me? For me, there's uh so many people that go through this thing. Wait, so there's a lot of people in the world that are getting help like how through the state, help through the government, and I feel like a lot of those people don't need don't need it, but there's people out here that really do.

And I'm I've I've been through it, but I'm still It's a process. So, I don't even know what it is I'm going through. How much money do you need to be able to save your apartment? Uh it's too embarrassing to to even talk about it, to talk.

We help people a lot. I I Yes, every chance I get. My song I got four homeless people they sort homeless people a hotel room. I don't know.

So, I got money. And now I was waiting for somebody to come. Here you go. 20.

Here you go. Here you go. It's yours. Will not you want to bring food?

Will not you want to leave? Are you afraid of being homeless? It's a very extremely honestly I am. I've never been that homeless today in my life.

Is there a possibility of that? Very very very possible. I'm really scared. Why did you stop and help me?

I If I was sitting in that spot, I would hope that somebody would have said yes to me. This is the most anyone has done to me. I don't know how long. That's my answer, okay?

Yes, you were.