After getting kicked out (eviction proceedings have started), the main thing holding my family and me back from finding a place to live is our lack of a landlord's reference, due to our current landlord being a verbally abusive harrasser who likes to exploit POC (me getting angry at that is what started all this and got us kicked out) and the one before that being a literal nazi we had to flee from.
Potential new landlords ask for references and contact details and won't rent to me without that! They already don't like that I'm a foreigner without a Finnish identification number, though luckily I'm an EU citizen. (We don't mention Dion bc he's undocumented.)
Can someone give us a fake reference and pretend to be our landlord for a minute? We'd need:
- a phone number they could call where you'd tell them I was a good renter IF they even call
- a name and address to give the prospective new landlord (this can be fake/made up)
- e-mail optional
- it doesn't matter where you live, our current landlord also doesn't live here in Finland
- I can't think of any possible way to get in trouble for this. It's not like we're asking for a guarantor! (although we're not saying no if someone wants to offer that! 馃槄)
Please help! We're both survivors of chronic abuse and have NO irl friends or family we can ask for help, at all. We just want a safe place to live so we can continue our antifa stuff, like making music, art, games and writing books in Dion's case and supporting abuse survivors, writing and making zines about trauma and mental health awareness and how to stand up to fascists and abusers in my case.
We also dream of opening up our home to others who need it in the future. We know what it's like to struggle for basic survival in a hostile world and we know how to support others through that, we just need the chance to do so!