There are a lot of options that fall between living in your car and spending $47,500 a year on rent.

Maybe consider renting a room in an apartment.

It's not very self-aware to link to someone's post about being in such a desperate situation where they have no choice but to live in their car, while asking for tips on how to live in your car for fun while making $95k a year

you don't know anything about my situation, or my family's dysfunction. this isn't fun. offer something helpful or leave me alone.

Do you have any tips of where I can find apartments with rooms to rent that aren't full of scammy listings?

I've used Craigslist.

A good way to filter out scammers is to always meet at the actual apartment. Don't ever send anyone a dime or give them a ton of information until after you have been inside the apartment.

I only know what you wrote in your post. You want to move out, but think renting an apartment is a waste of money or costs too much money. But you do make enough money to rent an apartment if you wanted to.

My helpful advice would be to lower your housing costs by getting a roommate/renting a room. Then when you've increased your income enough to where it feels worth the cost, then you could upgrade to your own place

I asked if anyone had legitimate advice about sleeping in their car in the area. Thanks.

Thanks. I used to use Craigslist, years ago, but didn't know if it had changed to scam-central. I will check it out.

Still legit considering just sleeping in my car, but I'll take a chance on being able to find a sub $800 room in the area.

Pretty insensitive to link a post from r/homeless when you’re making 95k a year. I don’t know the situation with your family but I do know that’s enough to comfortably rent a room or even a studio in this city, if you’re looking in the right places. Flame me if you want but you really don’t have to live in your car

You make $95k a year and you essentially want to be homeless? You can definitely find a decent studio or 1BR within a decent budget. No need to spend half your income. If you really want to save though you can find a roomate. r/DCforRent and the DMV For Rent Facebook group would probably be a good starting place. I would also join the neighborhood facebook groups where you think you might want to live as I often see requests for roomates pop up in those as well.

If you want to live in your car then more power to you, but it seems like a very extreme solution IMO. Best of luck to you.