The prompt made me start crying. It is such a loaded word :(

"Rent insecure". I have just recently learned of that phrase. I am rent insecure, meaning if our landlords raised our rent I would be forced to depend on others for help. I was homeless when I was 18, but I chose it. I wanted to leave Maine and I just flitted around and 'lived' in 30$ a night motels where the burnt plastic smell of crack was everywhere. I was homeless but I knew I could home. I didn't want to, oldest of four kids, entire family ADHD and blue collar. I later learned that brains of kids from struggling families show the same brain patterns as PTSD, and I didn't think that was surprising. I guess it's a 'thing' now, that huge chunks of the population are 'rent insecure' and of course, that is just a feeder for the ever growing homeless population. I live in Ocean Beach, I see some kindnesses as a shop owner across from my house allows a very sweet man to sleep in the nook as long as he keeps it tidy, which he does. I hear people on our facebook exhibit bitterness about how much they have to pay to live here and that 'these people get ocean side property for free". Its too much for 5 minutes and its very painful to think about .