Workers Losing Housing Security
11 posts across 8 communities in the last 60 days; 27% from r/povertyfinance.
“Shiphand? Brother that won't solve your homeless problem. You want cruise ship. Soft work. It's great that grinding got you this far but it's not sustainable.”
“Do NOT get in unless you have your trench box/shoring. Fuck what the bossman says. We all want to go home at the end of the day”
“Just within Anchorage, the apartment is up Northeast of Anchorage and our jobs is in midtown and his job is in South Anchorage”
Several posts discuss jobs that include housing as a benefit, but highlight the precariousness of this arrangement. Workers find limited availability, overcrowding, or ultimately losing their housing despite employment. This creates instability and financial stress.
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“Do NOT get in unless you have your trench box/shoring. Fuck what the bossman says. We all want to go home at the end of the day submitted by /u/Significant_Egg_1925 [link] [comments]”
“Just within Anchorage, the apartment is up Northeast of Anchorage and our jobs is in midtown and his job is in South Anchorage”
“Also where you living where $30 an hour is 3 times the rent..must be comfortable with having 2+ roommates lol”
Security I only work fri-sun but they have only weekends all the time.
“I'm moving to the Seattle are for a job and need to find temporary housing starting on 9/26. It's just me and my wife. A room in a house would be fine. We're quite, nonsmokers and don't drink or do drugs. No pets either, not that we would mind if the homeowner has pets. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. ETA I'll be doing hospice nursing on the northern end of King County. submitted by /u/kittens_and_jesus [link] [comments]”
“They did 9 years ago , I don't work for the tribe anymore ,but I know a lot of them hire outsiders”
“Summer workers stay in cheap housing. Not in expensive condos or town houses of people who have achieved Fat FIRE.”
“650 ft studio apartments go for $3500/mth where OP is. This isn't the money you think it is.”
“One of the most expensive areas in the country to live. You have Google engineers that sleep in parking lot because they can’t afford homes.”
“Be cautious about housing tied to your job and check out the company's reputation before you accept. A friend of mine did that as a maintenance man for an apartment complex that turned out to be slumlords. The last straw was being called out to an elderly woman's apartment where sewage was backing up and having to tell her that he couldn't help. His boss wouldn't answer the phone and the plumbers wouldn't come out because they had not been paid for previous work. He would not”
“Yeah this exactly! Like I’ve looked at rent and it’s honestly about the same as I’m paying in Washington state maybe a few hundred more, in San Fran it was like 500 more a month for rent but the wages were way higher then in wa. Sure buying sucks in Cali but same in wa lol average house is like 700 plus and that’s hour out of the city. In Seattle it’s easily millions.”
“Shiphand? Brother that won't solve your homeless problem. You want cruise ship. Soft work. It's great that grinding got you this far but it's not sustainable.”
“If you are making $3,600 a month after taxes that is a pretty decent job. You don't want to blow it by being overtired especially when you first start. I would live at a motel. As a tip, many people live at the motel 6 in joliet. I have stayed there numerous times. If you need transportation, get a little e-bike for $200 from amazon. That's what my friend who was broke did when his car blew up.”
“I just checked and there are definitely rooms on Airbnb and spare room for under $1000 in Chicago area. I’d do that and a bike until I was situated instead of spending a thousand dollars a month on a rental car”
“Where is that? I mean that not as a challenge, I am genuinely curious and I'd like to read about it. I have read a little bit about communal living and it doesn't seem to work very well as a cure for homelessness. My town has a lot of resources dedicated to helping our homeless but it doesn't seem to help very many and it certainly hasn't helped keep them out of parks and off our streets. If there is some examples or literature or anything about successes municipalities have had”
“Yes. I did lots of research to land here. I drew a radius of about 3-4 hours of drive time from Chicago because my partner was intending to keep working a full time job in downtown Chicago for a time so we were going to keep the house there for the foreseeable future, and then we selected what we were looking for as far as an economic base, population density, housing stock, pricing range, other factors to start setting up a pool of candidate locations and then started working down that last by”
“Looking for a live in job, preferably in house keeping...I have a lot of experience in house keeping and willing to work for a place to live. Looking to go to the west side of Cleveland.”
“What area of Tn pays the best compared to cost of living? If anyone has any leads or way of finding high paying salaries with great benefits I’d be interested to know ! submitted by /u/DoGood2023 [link] [comments]”
“wanted to add onto this, there are also seasonal jobs that are *LESS* physically demanding in the hospitality industry. not likely to find a job with no physical activity at all, but its an option and many of them provide free or cheaper housing.”
“I actually started searching after I commented and found quite a few hiring right near me that I'd have never thought to check. No live on site positions so far, but this is a college town and there's a LOT more here than I anticipated, all with above average pay rates for the area. I appreciate the tip!”
“Man camps for oil and gas workers. Jobs in security, food service, housekeeping, and field operations.”
“Yea, U-Haul and the bigger ones likely not, but there are a lot of local chains or small-mid that do. Where I’m at a ton even have little balconies attached, like a little apartment. They are hard to find but yes, you’re basically getting paid to handle the premises, take rent, handle issues. Like an onsite property manager. Not security, more business.”
“I worked at ski resorts in Colorado and the employee housing was very limited and vast majority had to find our own housing. It wasn’t unusual to have 8-9 people staying in 2-3 bedroom apartments or employees living in their van in the parking lot. It was a fun life but out of all the positives affordable housing wasn’t one of them. At least where I worked. I will say National Parks in the summer provide employee housing to everybody.”