Anyone who has been through the process of applying for, and succrssfully recieving SSDI, knows that every single step and element of the process is at least one, if not multiple Catch 22s.

Hey uh, here's a real basic one:

Oh, are you homeless?

No permanent address?

You basically cannot apply for anything, anywhere, any kind of food assistance like SNAP, TANF, actual SSDI, Section 8...

You literally cannot even do step one if you're already fucked out of a home.

This is why you really luck out if you can get into a shelter that lets you use them as an address, and also the staff isn't stealing/opening the mail, or just maybe they lose half of it, or say you can't have it now because your crippling injury meant you got back to the shelter 3 minutes after curfew, try next week, after it needs to already be sent back out again with a response, or you can't apply again for 6 months.

Simultaneously, there are basically zero emergency housing resources for those who are not yet homeless, but going to become homeless soon.

Oh you're not homeless yet? You don't qualify.

Try again after your life has been ruined, no, we don't try to stop lives from being ruined, we shuffle them around afterward.