>>2657676Former bong here; bumping this thread because its the best read I have had on this board today.
If I am recalling correctly, in the UK you need to bring a lot of documentation to be eligible for council housing, be actively applying for jobs at all times to continue receiving unemployment or low income benefits (something like send 30 applications attend 7 interviews a month or something like that), and not only that, you have to make rent if you get housed in a council flat. Its also difficult to get housed in the first place because there are none available, council estates have been sold to developers and converted / modernized, etc. Also pretty much everyone wants to get housed because of the cost of living crisis that has been bubbling since like 2014.
Its not impossible, and it definitely works way better in the UK than in America (I saw like 5 homeless people per year total in Newcastle, living in Tucson AZ I see 15+ a day), but it is still difficult to achieve.
I guess however it is all about mindset. If you want to improve, do better, live humbly, and be stoic about your situation, you will find a way. American's in my experience are 10x more vapid than brits, 10x less useful in a crisis than brits, and 10x more likely to just roll over and die (read: keep abusing drugs and live on the streets forever). Also the American prison system turning them into permanently unemployable second class citizens and lack of access to essential transportation (you need a car to do literally anything here) really compounds the situation.
>picrel is a random image pulled from one of my my visits to >>>/n/ 
