I live 70 some miles south of Minneapolis. Where I am there is a waiting list for Section 8 housing. They take some applications and fill the slots, then close the list for months. It may be that way no matter where you go because there are so many people out of work looking for housing.

I live in a double-wide trailer and this winter I paid $68 a month for heating. Last year it was more like $90 because it was so cold. I haven't found the summers to be all that humid or hot. My cable and internet bill is higher than that. The only public assistance I know of is General Assistance (maximum is $203 a month) MFiP which is only for families, SSI (average monthly is $529 + $96 from MSA but I think it is higher in the cities). I don't know of any other public assistance. We do have MinnesotaCare for medical assistance and what we call Medicare - Medical Assistance. Of course we have the food stamp program - they give you a "credit card" called an EBT card. You should go to the MN website and look into assistance.

It's been interesting looking ups this stuff here is a website for MN Dept of human services -

http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/idcp...Name=id_020088