Food & Maintaining Shelter for Family Hall

I promised myself I wasn’t going to make another GoFundMe, but watching my wife struggle to maintain hope, be too weak & in pain from not eating and be afraid to eat when we do have it out of fear of not having enough to pay this room, enough is enough.

For those who don’t know, my name is JUNE!, a nonbinary hip hop artist hailing from Charlotte, NC. Me, my wife & our daughter have been going through much hardship after being displaced earlier this year in February. We’ve been homeless going from hotels, Airbnbs & such ever since. During that period, we endured a lot of challenges that almost brought us to our breaking points. From losing food stamps to spending weeks trying attain a job to working your body past its limits to the point of being in unbearable pain. Seeking out assistance and resources to NO avail. Trying our best to make the best of our situation and make sure our daughter’s good.

Back in October, we were both laid off from Allied Universal after a contract buyout, as no one else within wanted to hire me on. Certain predicaments led me to leave the company on occasions in the past and these people have no empathy. Ever since, we been attempting to find new employment to get things back on track. I had more trouble finding work so I started offering my services as a musician, production and such. Jae was fortunate to find more work but couldn’t keep up due to being weak from anemia and hunger. As of now, we’re both still seeking employment.

Things have gotten to a point where we exhausted all the assistance we could get from family and friends alike, even the option of staying with others is out of question due to personal feelings on their part. We have been waiting weeks to get back on EBT, only to just receive $23 a month. We’re also are in need of either $80 every day or $385 every week to maintain our current shelter. With the sales I do receive I can only manage to pay one day at a time and we often don’t get to eat. Our daughter is fed and her essentials are more of an priority but it’s hard to be good parents when we’re both burnt out, weak, depressed stressing over finances. The tears, the embarrassment, the betrayal we experienced.

Beat sales are not always consistent. I find myself everyday waiting for a sale or two to pay this room off and if not sometimes for my grandmother in-law reluctantly stepping in to help, we would be on the street. Promoting almost all day, every other day. As I’m still actively applying to jobs, we can’t keep living like this.

As I’m fortunately waiting on a (hopefully) decent amount of streaming funds, we’re only asking for $785 to pay for the week and have enough for groceries. We have until Monday 6:30PM EST to pay $80 or $385. We currently need groceries right now as we spent all we had yesterday. My services are still available as well if you can’t donate. My Bandcamp (https://shawnmay.bandcamp.com) has content you can directly support. This isn’t the worst thing but no one shouldn’t be living like this.