It doesn't even sound like this is a shelter?
" with parolees" sounds like the kind of place I've visited myself when a friend was put up there.
Yes it was horrible and violent and mostly men but it was
mixed sex and individual flats.
Don't mix with them, don't talk to them, and you won't get your head stamped on in your own living room behind your lockable door. It doesn't sound like she's gonna be talking to anyone anyway and has a phone with Internet so won't be driven out of loneliness to socialise with the other flats like in times past.
It sounds like girly is just having a melty about what emergency accom is actually like. It's by far mostly men because men are more often homeless, and the kind of women who end up homeless, generally are gonna have you missing the men, in terms of violent, brutalised nut jobs.
She'll have gone through the not easy process of bitching and moaning and declaring herself homeless enough to get out of her "abusive" middle class parents back bedroom and has found out that... I was gonna say it's not what it's cracked up to be, but I genuinely don't know what she expected it to be? It's not cracked up to be anything good.
Assume she just expected an immediate lovely flat.
When she does eventually get offered one, after joining the as the bottom priority of a low list, the kinds of 1 bed properties she'll be offered by the council will be not be a huge step above her current situ unless she gets a lot of luck.
