High Priestess Maxine Dietrich said:
Maxine, I am in a living situation within a housing program of sorts where I do not have permission to hoard or stock up on food, and I have indeed tried asking but was stated to be "worrying over nothing" by staff, regardless even so they cannot allow me to as it goes against the health and safety committee. I am in Canada and have thousands of dollars saved up for emergencies such as this and have the freedom to move out.
The conflict is, this place is immensely helpful and stable for me in more ways than one: 24/7 staff, food, safety, shelter, heat, water, internet, tv, security,
all included in just a $550 rent. I work a full-time minimum wage job which in canada ranges from $13 to $15 an hour. How should I weigh this out? I am allowed to hoard basically everything else in my room, hygiene products, gloves, water, first-aid supplies, etc... I just can't store food. This place has networks with other locations that work in providing food and such to those who are poor, at one point we had a literal 10s of 10s of cereals that took us 3 months to run out of as well as a freezer stocked with 2 months worth of donations of meats and turkey, so I imagine if something really does go down here that the people who own this place would be able to assist and provide aid, in fact this place in my opinion might be the best place to be in these circumstances...
This place has been a legit miracle to me for everything and has all I could ever thrive on with such a cheap rent, so I'm sure you understand my uncertainty to just leave it due to being unable to do one thing that probably won't even be an issue going forward... I was hoping perhaps you might be able to provide your own opinion and guidance?