A better crowdfunding site than GoFundMe? [View all]

[moriah]

Last edited Wed Sep 24, 2014, 10:40 AM - Edit history (1)

I'm kind of in a crisis, and I wouldn't come to DU about it, except that I'm not sure what else to do.

As you're aware, I am on SSDI. When I got my backpay and was able to pay off my bills (including the money I owed the guy who was nice enough to let me stay with him while I was going through my approval process), I thought I had a roommate who was willing to share the expenses on a place with me. She bailed at the last minute, and I found another roommate who really did need me -- the one who was recently acquitted of shooting a wife-beater.

Sadly, though, for the last several months she has not been able to pay her rent. I wasn't about to kick her out when I knew her trial was coming up -- too soft-hearted. But it's gotten to the point where I had to put last month's rent on a credit card, and this month I will have to give up the place I'm in and get a new place.

I found one I will be able to afford easily ($525 a month, all utilities paid, where I'm paying $1000 on this place without the renters paying me anything), the trouble is they are requiring a $500 deposit, which I do NOT have, and there's no way I can come up with that money. I can't keep paying the bills on this place and my landlord wants me out by the 30th. A friend suggested to set up a GoFundMe, but given their stance on abortion funding, I don't want to give them money from any donations that anyone might make to help me get into this new place.

Does anyone have any suggestions? I mean, if I'm evicted I can get on the homeless shelter waiting list, but there's no way I'd be able to keep my cat, and he's what keeps me going. Without him I wouldn't even get out of bed most days. I checked on public housing, since i qualify, but their waiting list is 3 months, and I have to be out sooner than that.

Any thoughts, energy, prayers, etc, to perhaps finding a place that won't charge that kind of deposit would be greatly appreciated as well.



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Update:

Thanks to the generosity of both DUers and one person who said they were from the Conservative Cave, I'll be able to pay the deposit now!

You guys have no idea what kind of weight this has taken off of my shoulders.

You all rock, and I wish all of you the best... and if any of you ever need anything, PM me!