@scottsantens I can’t stop thinking about how even an extra $500 a month could help so many people qualify to rent apartments who didn’t meet the minimum income requirement before that.

I’ve been disabled since 2012, I didn’t start getting disability income in until 2016, but once I did I was still homeless because SSDI was not 3 1/2 times any of the rent. Even when I had a part-time job that made my average income out to be many dollars more than minimum wage if my total income was averaged over a 40 hr week, I still did not have a high enough income to qualify to rent.

But SSDI, plus my part-time job, plus $500 would have been 3 1/2 times rent a one bedroom apartment. This would solve so many problems.

Here in NH if you owe child support and you have no income you are still expected to pay $50 a month (unless that went up over the past 5 years), which doesn’t really do anything for someone taking care of a kid but it’s better than nothing. At least people without a job would still be able to stay current on child support if they had $500 a month, they wouldn’t risk losing licenses they need to generate income.