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what resources are there to help someone pay past due rent, other than Salvation Army, State Aid that takes weeks or months to get or charities?
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Do you receive any public assistance? If so, have you spoken to your case worker?
What occurred that caused you to not be able to pay the rent?Steve
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None that I know of. Just self, friends, family, and charity. I'm surprised you have "State Aid" on your list, as I do not know of any state program to pay past due rent. Maybe your state, but not mine. Sorry.
There is rent assistance through some federal programs that may be run by your state, but those are not for past due rent. These programs (like "Section 8" and HUD's housing for seniors and disabled persons) arrange ahead of time to assist with rent of low income people who are unlikely to be able to afford any market rate rentals. Typically there are years long waiting lists to get help through these programs. (Many people living on the streets and in homeless shelters are on the waiting lists for this aid, and they tend to get priority over those who are living with family or friends.)
If you are temporarily low income (out of work, employed only part time, have more dependents than you can afford), you may qualify for aid that would allow you to shift some of your dollars toward paying the rent. For example, if you qualify for $200 worth of foodstamps and you have been spending that much on food, then with fodstamps, you can use your $200 on catching up with rent. Unemployment insurance, heat assistance, aid to families with dependent children--all these might effectively boost the cash you have to spend on rent. Some states still even have a program called "general assistance" that provides cash to its most desperate citizens. For some reason this is a program that seems almost forgotten. However, it often is a pittance, with the amount of assistance having been set by law during the Great Depression!"There is some ontological doubt as to whether it may even be possible in principle to nail down these things in the universe we're given to study." --text msg from my kid
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Call your local Catholic Church and ask if there is a St. Vincent de Paul Society in your area. You don't need to be Catholic to recieve help from them (or any religion at all, and they won't try to convert you, either
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There are other social services that may help with a portion of the rent if you can find enough to get it all covered. Check your local phone book for social services agencies and call every one if need be.
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