I just don't understand how a temporary, seasonal, part-time job can make your rent climb so high. I do use the Home Choice Section 8 Voucher program to help me with my rent as I became disabled in 2001, due to a physical assault on the job.
It wasn't until three, maybe four years ago could I secure a job. I only had my social security disability coming in for 16 years when I got a job as a seasonal, temporary worker doing Hunter Harvest Calls. It pays $9.50 an hour and it is a fight to get 20 hours, and I have yet to get the "core" hours, which are peak times people are home to call without having to work six days a week due to my chronic pain condition.
That is ok, the job pays about $190 gross a week, that is if I can get 20 hours in. That is about $570 take-home pay. That means for the six months I try to work up to 20 hours my rent will be $581 a month, leaving me with a grand total of $19 left from my net pay.
My SSDI is under $900 a month, and I will need to pay renter's insurance, which wasn't told to me before the lease signing, nor was it told to me that the housing authority agreed to the raising of the rent from $750 a month to $820. Granted all utilities are included, but the heat is locked in at 62 degrees and it has been in the twenty degrees to single digest numbers at night, and you don't get heat in the big bedroom or bathroom.
I had to pay a $750 security deposit and their cleaning people didn't even clean the oven the first time. The stove was present with crusted brown/black drip pans and an inch or more of precleaned oven crud that wasn't wiped out. The walls are filthy dirty, coated in dust, fuzz, and film from cooking, showering, buggers and blood on the walls along with other unidentifiable stuff. I get to clean it because they paid their cleaner for 4 hours at $20 an hour and she did little to nothing.
It wasn't until three, maybe four years ago could I secure a job. I only had my social security disability coming in for 16 years when I got a job as a seasonal, temporary worker doing Hunter Harvest Calls. It pays $9.50 an hour and it is a fight to get 20 hours, and I have yet to get the "core" hours, which are peak times people are home to call without having to work six days a week due to my chronic pain condition.
That is ok, the job pays about $190 gross a week, that is if I can get 20 hours in. That is about $570 take-home pay. That means for the six months I try to work up to 20 hours my rent will be $581 a month, leaving me with a grand total of $19 left from my net pay.
My SSDI is under $900 a month, and I will need to pay renter's insurance, which wasn't told to me before the lease signing, nor was it told to me that the housing authority agreed to the raising of the rent from $750 a month to $820. Granted all utilities are included, but the heat is locked in at 62 degrees and it has been in the twenty degrees to single digest numbers at night, and you don't get heat in the big bedroom or bathroom.
