I am glad you are still secure with your housing.

I wanted to also add that it sucks when you are in a place of desperation, such as needing a place to live or money to borrow or food to eat, etc. It puts you in a position of having to make compromises just to survive, such as keeping friends you wouldn't keep if you didn't have a housing crisis or otherwise. That's something that I thought long and hard about when I was able to transition to getting more money, which meant more security in many ways. I let go of all the toxic friends, but I still kept an opened mind with some who were truly struggling. There was one person who kept getting into trouble, due to his alcoholism and other problem behaviors, so he would do criminal acts, etc. He was in jail for a while. I just couldn't stand to see him throw his life away anymore. He was a friend from college, but he dropped out. It's a long story, but a few of us were trying to help him. He broke my laptop one day and then did something horrible to his ex girlfriend. I seriously couldn't be his friend anymore; he would not respect boundaries, and he was unsafe. I had to spend over $1000 getting a new computer at that time, and he never offered to pay a dime for it.

Anyway, I learned that just because people are in college, it doesn't mean that they are safe either. I knew him from both the community college and the university we both transferred to. He was too much trouble, and many people in college knew it before I did. We tried to help, but it wasn't worth the money and time we lost for the few years we spent investing in him. It's sad.

So I hope you don't make the same mistakes I did.

Be safe, and I hope your housing situation remains stable.