I may be able to help her, will try.

I have experience and helpful knowledge with her situation.

I have a tiny room in Seattle. Most of the time now, I am out of Seattle at my girlfriend's house. I wish I could loan my room to Rebecca when I'm not there, which is most of the time, but that's against the rules.

I was homeless for a time, survived better than most, but it's still quite traumatizing so I understand. I am doing much better now. I was also previously very high achieving, advanced degree, patents. I'm knowledgeable of a wide range of mental disorders from contact with others. I'm not qualified to treat, but can recognize things and perhaps recommend where assistance is available. I know where she may be able to get free counseling. It helped greatly for me just to have someone to talk with confidentially once a week when I was deeply traumatized. Rebecca sounds very emotionally isolated, both from the homelessness, and perhaps from shame and not wanting to impose on others, this is quite common but also quite damaging. Contact and socialization with others may help.

I've helped a lot of others in town. Other resources:

I know of some homeless camps that are a step above, I stayed at one a week (expecting longer) until my current housing became available. (Ironic, after staying in many bad places, I was actually happy there, read on...) It was very clean, they had their own tents set up on pallets and covered by tarps, dry, the only drawback was it was cold, but they provided lots of blankets. I was able to keep my bike chained just outside my tent, and each camper had to do some guard duty during the week, it was patrolled 24/7. They had ample and free food. Oh, and they even had a washer, dryer, and hot shower. The place was definitely a cut above. No drugs or alcohol, had to pass background check. However it was well outside of downtown Seattle.

If she has been diagnosed with mental health issues that interfere with her employment, she may quality for Social Security Disability which would not only provide income, but there is low income housing that would take 1/3 of that as rent.

I often fix bikes for the homeless, nothing fancy, but enough to get them moving (though I am very capable of full overhauls). I could get her set up on a bike and even a trailer if she wanted. Years ago I met a female army vet that was homeless but looked like she was bike touring, very clean, set up camp each night. Being homeless in Seattle, a bike vastly increases your travel radius, however it can pose challenges for storage when she goes into buildings. I myself have a 20" wheel folder with panniers, and when it needs to go inside, it always can, it can even fit under the bed in a shelter. In fact, I got mine when I was staying in a shelter.

I bought in the fall a bunch of "battery banks" (auxiliary storage batteries for cell phones via USB) that I have given to some homeless, extremely helpful to prolong their cell phone life, and can charge concurrently with their phone at the library or such. I'd be happy to give her one.

I just had dental work done at a local dental school, probably $1500 work for $150 total, not free, but still a good resource.

There are many free food banks, and places serving really good free meals, if Rebecca is not aware.

I know from the article she is hesitant to accept help without that same help going to others. But I will start small, see if I can help with anything in terms of non-monetary resources. Many of the homeless I have contact with, their mental health or substance abuse issues are too severe for my being able to help. With Rebecca, I think that may not be the case, she sounds lucid.

I'll reach out with the above info to the story author, with my contact info.