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<blockquote data-quote="CrazyinVA" data-source="post: 150987" data-attributes="member: 1157"><p>Thanks, all. </p><p></p><p>She's been on the Section 8 list well over a year, so being #3 now is a good thing. A year is actually GOOD compared to other counties around here, some are 2-3 years. The forms are filled out at social services, you wait for a voucher to become available (i.e, someone else has to move out and off of the list), and then you have 60 days to find an apartment/house with an eligible landlord. If she moves out of this county, she loses her eligibility and starts all over wherever she lives. To get into a homeless shelther, she has to go to a central "intake" place and be placed wherever there is an opening, which is NOT likely to be in this county. I've looked into all of it. So, I am, as they say, between a rock and a hard place. Again, if it were just her? I'd say tough luck and let the chips fall as they may, even if she lost her place on the list. But with Aidan involved? I just can't throw him to the wolves. As much as I love him? The thought of raising another child makes me want to jump out a window. I can't do it again, I'm done. Raising two difficult children by myself did me in. It's MY turn at life now.</p><p></p><p>I like the landlord/tenant idea. I need to think on some specifics of how it would work here. My biggest leverage is the car she drives (which belongs to me), and babysitting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CrazyinVA, post: 150987, member: 1157"] Thanks, all. She's been on the Section 8 list well over a year, so being #3 now is a good thing. A year is actually GOOD compared to other counties around here, some are 2-3 years. The forms are filled out at social services, you wait for a voucher to become available (i.e, someone else has to move out and off of the list), and then you have 60 days to find an apartment/house with an eligible landlord. If she moves out of this county, she loses her eligibility and starts all over wherever she lives. To get into a homeless shelther, she has to go to a central "intake" place and be placed wherever there is an opening, which is NOT likely to be in this county. I've looked into all of it. So, I am, as they say, between a rock and a hard place. Again, if it were just her? I'd say tough luck and let the chips fall as they may, even if she lost her place on the list. But with Aidan involved? I just can't throw him to the wolves. As much as I love him? The thought of raising another child makes me want to jump out a window. I can't do it again, I'm done. Raising two difficult children by myself did me in. It's MY turn at life now. I like the landlord/tenant idea. I need to think on some specifics of how it would work here. My biggest leverage is the car she drives (which belongs to me), and babysitting. [/QUOTE]
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