http://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/
You aren't yet literally on the street. I suggest you not tell people you are homeless. Get a mailing address and dirt cheap phone and apply for work.
Get better at leaving out the personal details. They are pertinent to you. They are mostly not anything a potential employer wants to hear.
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For the past year I've been constantly on the brink of being on the street or worse and have been fighting tooth and nail to get even a sofa or any help at all. The vast majority of my family are back in South America and have problems of their own to deal with, my friends are not doing that much better. It sucks. No-one I'm applying for a job with would hear about any of it though of course.
On the first of the month here, they do a thing where you can post that you are a freelancer or an employer seeking a freelancer. That is coming up in a few days. You might check that out.
You should also look for gig work. By 2020, 40% of US workers are expected to be doing gig work of some kind. Regular jobs are becoming less common. I have been doing gig work and my income is trending up while on the street. I do freelance writing, part time and intermittently (due to health issues). That is gradually leading to better things for me.
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I've done some grant-writing work on Upwork, and I'm trying to get into other writing opportunities for gigs. Is there anywhere you recommend for that, in particular that doesn't scam people? I will definitively come back Aug 1st and check out that thread, thanks. That reddit definitively is interesting...
I remember when Amazon started Mturk and all of a sudden, the gig economy hit the internet. Visionary, really.