Well I hope he managed to get a deal with his mom. I hope he had completed high school, so he could ask for student loans (I think not many people get grants in the US, it's those scholarships I hear about, there's no such thing here. You could have a 98% average in high school and you will not get free money because of that, especially if your parents are still together and together they reach a threshold where I would have gotten NO grants and loans, because my mom and dad together made too much money, I think my dad was making 45k a year in those days, add in my mom's 22k's and we were over the edge of poverty, which was for a family of 4, 57k and change and less, in early 2000's money. Had my parents never divorced (fucking finally, it was hell to endure their stupid yelling and arguments from since i was 10 to 17) I would have not gotten any college money at all, and my dad would get angry when I was in grade 11 and the school's requirement list for me included a TI-80 graphic calculator. They were like 140 dollars back then, now they're worth 30 dollars max, but then they were cutting edge, kind of, my friend has his parents buy him a TI-83 and it was worth 300 dollars and it didn't do many things more, mostly had a larger screen. Anyway, when I told my dad he was obligated to buy me the calculator (now the government if your parents can't afford it, all have a bunch of graphic calculators they lend to the students who need em but dont have them), but yeah he was a goddamn douche, no way he would have given me money freely to pay for my college education (which is one of the cheapest in North America in this province if not the cheapest), and it doesn't mean the universities suck, universities like McGill, Montreal U, Concordia and Laval University are all very good universities, the provincial ones, which are like say University of California in San Diego etc are great too, the problem is that not all of the University of Quebec in X offer the same programs and if I wasn't pressured by my mom when I wanted to go to UQ Montreal (which is different than Montreal U), she made me feel guilty with her going "I would lose your alimony money, I'd have to send it to you every month. And it worked, the one thing I can't forgive my mom for. In an alternate universe where I just left despite her fearmongering, I know my life would have gone much better for me. I wouldn't have had that smoke weed everyday attitude, which does in my case cause demotivate me, I mean even sober I was pretty lazy but weed did more so, and although being in a band that had actual releases (2 EP's one demo cassette that sounds better than the first pressed EP), I wouldn't have gotten into smoking cigarettes, I've stopped since a year and a half and am now vaping, and I still don't feel totally cleaned out, apparently that takes 3 years and I certainly would have hung with different people, sure I would have had to make friends, but that was not a difficulty of mine, back then.
All this to say, I could have ended up on welfare and pretend my parents disowned me and would not sign anything and would not let me on their properties to get some student money. Here welfare is much better, no food stamps, you get a full cheque. My cousin who is prescribed Sativex (my god, the high from that thing) because he's got MS). I find Sativex to be a better alternative to weed, the thc/cbd ratio is the best with that inhaler looking vaporizer. He gets 1300 dollars of welfare a month, free meds, free dentist (yeah, we might have universal healthcare in Canada, but no free dentistry, that stopped for me when I reached 25, when I was booted out automatically out of my mom's health plan, it didn't matter if I was still a student, at 25, it's over.
But at least I hear its there, apply for welfare, see what happens, if your mom has allowed OP to stay until he does so and finds himself a 1 room apartment.
