Help disabled family secure housing & restart life.

hi, i'm S. i don't wish to reveal my first name at this time due to stalking & harassment from our abuser, W. it's a very very heavy heart that i even have to make this in the first place.

for background: my mother has been in an abusive relationship with W for almost over 8 years now, since i was 11 years old, with constant attempts of getting away. my mother and i are both disabled, but i will not be going into the specifics as to why due to it being incriminating and potentially putting us at risk. in december 2024, W has become so violent that local officers and police literally told me, my mother, and my 5 year old brother "if [we] come back [to our home], [we] will be killed [by W]". this is on bodycam of an officer telling us we will be in danger if we were to return to our home. so since then, all three of us have been staying in a hotel, living week by week while our abuser stalks, harasses, torments, and manipulates us to keep us homeless and weak. he sabotages us and has sabotaged our attempts of getting places, jobs, other opportunities and more, and has indirectly caused us to not get a place.

briefly about me and W: i am technically his step son, in simplest terms. i am 19 now. he is a grown man and has been in his 30s since i have been 14-going-on-15. he has sent me, a teenager, sexually explicit images under the guise of "just looking out for me," at 11 years old he would show me brutal sex scenes and rape scenes in movies & in shows to "scare me straight" and only recently did i tell my mother about this, and she was the one that made me realize this was abusive. and without going into detail, again due to incrimination, simply put: W is a pedophile, and likes little girls. i will not be giving reason as to why due to the aforementioned reason, but i am willing to explain such a wild allegation if need be, since it is a very heavy thing to accuse of someone without proof.

now to talk about how we are as a son and step father: i paid at least half if not more than half of bills and/or utilities in the household since 17 years old (i have paid other bills & utilities in previous households in the past due to him, but i am only referring to our last living situation) due to W becoming unemployed, refusing to find a job, purposely making his unemployment run out, and forcing my mother to make her rely on me to fund a household of 4 people (2 adults, 1 teen, 1 toddler) and 4 cats, and a raccoon (yeah, i still don't understand this one either even now).

the last year in that house, i was a contributing member to all bills and utilities out of necessity because the grown adult man refused to get a job, and my disabled mother couldn't get one and had to take care of my little brother. W cares little for me, has no regard for my belongings and money, no regard for me as a person, and recently will not stop stalking me and harassing me. i have done nothing to warrant him reaching out to me besides the fact i am my mother's son and he wants to ruin her's and i's lives.

there is a lot more i can include about W from the 7+ years of abuse, but obviously, that would be a lot and also it would be very incriminating. and i truly do not want any attention from any parties associated to him or otherwise. we just need help.

what i am raising funds for is to help us get into a place. as of right now, april 2025, we have a very promising opening available to us. only issue; my mother has an eviction on her credit DUE to W being arrested back when we lived in this certain place (domestic abuse charges, go figure), and we were forced to leave since she was a stay at home mom with no job, and W was the one with the job. i was freshly 14 at this time while my brother was born just months prior.

obviously, an eviction is not $10k. the reason i set the "goal" so high is due to needing the funds to move in period, and this little part of $10k will pay off that eviction on her credit. this hotel guts us dry weekly and it is the cheapest we can be in right now. i pay $400 each week just to keep a roof over all 3 of our heads while my mom, jobless for 7+ years due to being promised by W she wouldn't need a job & he would take care of us, has a brand new job and she uses her funds for our weekly errands and utilities (gas, food, necessities not provided by hotel, etc) & saving it little by little so we can try to save up enough for an initial move in (which, for a lot of places we have looked at, is around $2000 alone starting off).

this gfm, even if it does not reach the goal, is going to be up for as long as it is needed, but once i am stable and do not need the assistance, this page will go down. i want to emphasize that we are trying; i have a job, had one since 17. my mom JUST got a job due to all of this alone. i planned to go to school to get a higher paying job but that was put on pause due to becoming homeless. once we can just meet our necessities without worry and without constantly needing to pay a hotel every week and wasting our funds, i can go to school. and once that gets over with, it's just uphill. this is one hump we just cannot get over alone and it is detrimentally affecting us.

i am willing to discuss, chat, or talk to anyone about anything. i'm not too keen on if gfm has a social system where you reach out to people, but i am willing to try and discuss and provide evidence for all my claims, as i am not a liar. i also do have the right to not give any information to anyone if i see fit or permitted.

thank you to anyone who reads, shares, donates, or just is sending us good energy and well wishes. it means more than you know, and to everybody that has supported us during the hard 4 first months homeless, i will forever be in your debt.

i want to close this out with just saying please keep your community and loved ones closest to you, and be grateful for genuinely everything you have. keep the ones you want in your life close but also do not lose sight of yourself and become someone you can rely and lean on too. you need yourself, but you need people too.