Will someone please take the time to read this and please offer some advice? Please Help! Thank You

My friend is homeless. He just completed a 6mo. drug rehab program in Clinton SC. He has been living in a halfway house up there. In the halfway house you have to pay your rent, and he recently got laid off his job. The drug rehab is sponsored by a church so it was completely free. Any way he wants to come back to the area where I am in Anderson County SC, but I told him he needs to have a place to go. I will help all I can but I have already lived with this man for 9 years and I am not going to take care of him like I did before. I am not trying to be mean but I feel like he needs to do stuff on his own. I feel bad for him. Right now he is still in Clinton and he slept in a friends car last night. He called the haven of rest down here in anderson but they said all the beds are full and they have a waiting list. Can someone offer any advice? Please helpWill someone please take the time to read this and please offer some advice? Please Help! Thank You
you don't need to live with again but help find affordable place to live and a job. he needs a lot of support rite now keep an eye on him because he may start doing drags again. just be a good friend. help him not take care of him Will someone please take the time to read this and please offer some advice? Please Help! Thank You
Let him know you care for him but you can't be his babysitter.


You could let him stay with you but tell him he needs to get a job and stay under control and out of trouble.


Then when he has a steady job and a decent income, he could get his own place.


Just encourage him to get a job and try hard to stay clean and sober.
Talk to him and tell him that even though you're both good friends you don't want to be responsible for him. Tell him if he stays with you he has to be able to take care of himself and not bother you.
Let him work it out, he's not your problem, you have to be cruel to be kind. If you let him stay for a few days you wont get rid of him.
Well let me start off by saying I am so sorry about your friend. My advice for this situation is just be there for him when he needs some friendship. I understand why you don't want to live with him but did you ever think about being honest with him on that. I mean he needs to know how you feel about you not wanting to take care of him. Also remind him that their are a good amount of jobs options out there for him and I am sure he will land on his feet in no time. So be there when he needs advice and just be there when he needs you.
I have been in the very same place you're in right now. Do not let this person make you feel that it's your responsibility to help him. He was the one who got in this predicament. Even if, deep down, you love this man, you can not change who he is. He's been in trouble before and will probably be so again. Yes, we're all sorry that he has lost the one job he could get, but there are other jobs out there, if he tries to find one. He can call the Salvation Army and find a bed to sleep in, he could call Social Services and find someplace to sleep. It's okay to be a friend to him, as you have been in the past; it's okay to help out occasionally, like taking him out to dinner or lunch, but he is not your responsibility. You have been the good samaritan, but be careful or you'll end up letting him live with you and all that baggage will be right back in the closet you finally managed to clean out. You're not being mean; you're protecting yourself and there is nothing wrong with that. You can be kind, but you need to keep your boundaries intact. Bless you for the help you've given to him, but eventually, each of us needs to stand on our own and either we'll continue to stand, or we'll fall, but it's up to us to do this for ourselves. Yes, each of us has trials and tribulations that we have to go through, but most of these are created or caused by our own actions. If your friend is mentally challenged, that is different and he probably need help/medication/counseling to fully recover. That should not be your role. Be a friend, but keep it very, very light. Good luck, bless you and him.