Help Jazmine's Family Secure Safe Housing

Hello, my name is Jazmine, you may also know me as kirijaz, Illustrator and Content Creator. Despite me having a bright aura online it has been fluctuating these past years and I sadly just didn’t want to tell anyone until now. It’s all because of my current housing situation and I’m ready to be fully transparent about it.

I live with my two brothers and my mother who is the only one able to help pay rent. But recently, due to South Florida building new houses and apartments near us, the landlord increased the rent from $1200 to $1700 and my mom can’t afford that.

She now has to work two jobs and be a single mother at home. I don’t get paid enough at my retail job or with my content creation combined. I don’t even get a tax return so you can imagine how much I get paid. I’ve been trying to work hard to meet requirements to be monetized to help, but the momentum always slows down because of the horrible environment. We tried to apply for food stamps but the government keeps rejecting us because my mom “gets paid too much” (although it’s just over $27). The amount of groceries we can afford can only last us for 3 days. And the father of my brothers doesn’t help at all with child support either.

Another reason(s) why we need to move: the house has mold in the walls and I found out when I had a severe allergic reaction in 2021, the roof and walls have been peeling and breaking apart for several years, our oven broke 4 years ago, our washer & dryer broke a year ago so we have to go to the laundromat every Sunday and half of our fridge doesn’t function at all.

The landlord even stated that we only had two options, to either pay the rent or move out.

We’ve tried Section 8 multiple times but we always end up on the waiting list. Despite me living in this depressing situation I still try to push out content to post, but these days it’s been difficult. I’m tired of pretending everything is okay when it’s not. My commissions will be open indefinitely so I can help out my mother with the current situation we’re living in. I truly believe she deserves a better place than this. I can’t continue seeing her cry every day. I don’t want my younger brothers to think this is normal when it isn’t. We hope to find a three bedroom apartment for my family in 2025 but the sooner the better. It’s been more than 10 years that we’ve been here and my mother is tired of coming home just to see nothing but an unhealthy decaying house. I’m worried that if she overworks herself to pay rent that she’ll end up in the hospital and I don’t want that to happen at all. She’s been my motivation to work hard and I’m not going to give up on her.

The funds for this GFM will be going towards securing a stable housing for my family, a U-Haul truck and additional expenses for the apartment. Any updates of the situation will be added. If you cannot donate then shares are very much appreciated. Thank you for reading.