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My Housing Woes
My Housing Woes
By: Sangita Bhatt
The Melting Pot got a little too hot for me in the past few years. So much so that it is difficult for me to identify which house I belong to. More so, from -- where should my house be -- to which is the ADDRESS. Where you live or where you receive mail. The Postal Service must be encountering interesting incidents as far as misdirected or missing mail is concerned. Every time I have an id to give or expect a mail, I am faced with this situation of; will i receive it; did I miss it. Sometimes there is no way to know that there was a feedback. Thanks to the e-mails, some of this is avoided but the problem is still there. If ONLY I COULD HAVE A CLOUD ADDRESS for all the mails. Wouldn't be surprised.
Well that was not my purpose of writing this. The real reason is that it is difficult to have a home that can house you long enough to be your regular permanent address. The situation I am talking is that of temporary housing to Homelessness. Most people do have some address before they become homeless. The Shelters do provide some help but is not the kind one can look forward to. Most of the real estate, housing, shelters work on the condition that you have some kind of income to contribute towards your stay. This is actually not properly translated monetary wise to help those who are not currently unemployed,.. women with children, disabled, seniors and minors( and others in the category).
Most Shelters and rental housing require income. Private house owners give properties on rent, but often do not give receipt of the rent taken, so as a result, you do not have a proof of income spent on rent. To make it worse they do not report their rental income to the IRS. There is no proof that you paid and they made money on you living in their house. Shelters on the other hand do know that the persons they are housing have hardships. But they also do not let you live there for more than a certain period. Whereas the families that live there are supported because they have someone outside of that shelter supporting them. could be out of state, friend , relative, someone from the Jailhouse, divorce court etc. The point is --THAT THERE IS SOMEONE OUT THERE FOR THEM.
They are helping in a small way, whichever way they an. Is this reported by the shelters as income received towards the shelter upkeep, or as rental income received by them for housing these people? Same applies for Senior Centers and likewise. You do the math. Do those who contribute towards these housing expenses get any receipts to show for tax purposes? Private house owners; to shelters; if they report this, the homeless and those families, friends who help them will also get proper representation and the homeless person gets to show that he or she has income coming from some source to get proper representation and proper refund. At the same time those who help pay for them, does not matter whether they are divorced, out of state, jailed, deployed get to show it in their taxes.
This first towards the "Housing" would lead the way for the next step ........
By: Sangita Bhatt
The Melting Pot got a little too hot for me in the past few years. So much so that it is difficult for me to identify which house I belong to. More so, from -- where should my house be -- to which is the ADDRESS. Where you live or where you receive mail. The Postal Service must be encountering interesting incidents as far as misdirected or missing mail is concerned. Every time I have an id to give or expect a mail, I am faced with this situation of; will i receive it; did I miss it. Sometimes there is no way to know that there was a feedback. Thanks to the e-mails, some of this is avoided but the problem is still there. If ONLY I COULD HAVE A CLOUD ADDRESS for all the mails. Wouldn't be surprised.
Well that was not my purpose of writing this. The real reason is that it is difficult to have a home that can house you long enough to be your regular permanent address. The situation I am talking is that of temporary housing to Homelessness. Most people do have some address before they become homeless. The Shelters do provide some help but is not the kind one can look forward to. Most of the real estate, housing, shelters work on the condition that you have some kind of income to contribute towards your stay. This is actually not properly translated monetary wise to help those who are not currently unemployed,.. women with children, disabled, seniors and minors( and others in the category).
Most Shelters and rental housing require income. Private house owners give properties on rent, but often do not give receipt of the rent taken, so as a result, you do not have a proof of income spent on rent. To make it worse they do not report their rental income to the IRS. There is no proof that you paid and they made money on you living in their house. Shelters on the other hand do know that the persons they are housing have hardships. But they also do not let you live there for more than a certain period. Whereas the families that live there are supported because they have someone outside of that shelter supporting them. could be out of state, friend , relative, someone from the Jailhouse, divorce court etc. The point is --THAT THERE IS SOMEONE OUT THERE FOR THEM.
They are helping in a small way, whichever way they an. Is this reported by the shelters as income received towards the shelter upkeep, or as rental income received by them for housing these people? Same applies for Senior Centers and likewise. You do the math. Do those who contribute towards these housing expenses get any receipts to show for tax purposes? Private house owners; to shelters; if they report this, the homeless and those families, friends who help them will also get proper representation and the homeless person gets to show that he or she has income coming from some source to get proper representation and proper refund. At the same time those who help pay for them, does not matter whether they are divorced, out of state, jailed, deployed get to show it in their taxes.
This first towards the "Housing" would lead the way for the next step ........
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