Greetings,
In desperate need of funds to prevent homelessness for my Family.
Currently $4600 ( $4400 +$200 late fee, with 2 weeks before another $2200 will be due, $6800).
We have endured multiple ‘road blocks’, series of bad luck, suffering and injustices to end up in crisis.
My husband and I have been together for 28 years. I have supported our family as a fine dining server. We live minimally, homeschool, garden, bicycle, etc…we both experienced tragedy and death, and have viewed the quality of Life as best ‘Present’. No one is promised tomorrow, sleeping with clean hands and a pure heart is invaluable, making choices with the time given.
I have lost jobs over the decades to be there for my husband.
He is highly skilled Medical Cultivator but we have not been able to utilize his talents to ‘come up’.
We moved from the midwest to the coast in ’05, with $600 and what fit in a rented mini van. Thats how we started in California. Trying to find stability and lay down roots…In late 2023, we had been pre approved for a mortgage!! Our life long Dream.
But there were no homes, literally available that we could afford. The same time I found a Mass in my breast, after discovering breast cancer causing hormones were placed inside my body against my will.
My Grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer in her 50’s, months later her daughter was diagnosed with breast cancer at 34 years old.
I was in third grade at the time. I made life choices to mitigate my 19.9% genetic risk of developing breast cancer. When I watched my Mothers last breath at 39 yrs old, I was 16 yrs and have PTSD from this.
Discovering the hormones, the mass, I began to lose ‘myself’. It took 6 weeks for radiology to clear me of cancer.
2 weeks later, our landlord informed us he sold our home.
I spent December of 2023 packing up our life in cardboard boxes. Rented a Uhaul and filled a storage unit New Years Eve.
We could not find a place. We ended up in a pricy furnished unit that we paid all utilities in and $419 in storage fees monthly.
Mid January, I found rats in the unit. We lost 1/3 of our belongings. The insurance refused to pay.
It took 2 weeks to clean and throw away our things. I ended up being put on disability. I could not afford bills. We ended up homeless Sept 2024. I went to small claims to fight for storage losses.I lost. I racked $20,000 in debt surviving. Roach motels, rental applications from Oakland to Arcata, we were robbed of our SE bicycles and racks, we have footage in broad daylight but we just lost more.
I acted as my attorney to fight the medical malpractice, all while on disability, homeless, homeschooling our son…April 2025, I lost that case too.
Disability 52 weeks ended in May 2025. I tried working. It was going great!..then the owner started giving my shifts to the GM (his live in partner of over a decade, whom he was not paying wages) so he would make tips. He ended up intentionally trying to make me quit and then fired me for my PTSD when I would not.
I am trying to figure out 1) homeless prevention
pay back rent so we do not end up homeless. None of us can mentally handle it again, literally.
2) figure out consistent sufficient income to survive and be working to Buy a home ASAP
I am calling and applying to everything and there is no funding in any programs. There is no help. I feel so helpless and hopeless. My Family depends on me and I have not been able to provide the most basic needs.
I am exploring College?, Ihss, SSDI, workers compensation, multiple jobs, I do not know. Time is running out.
The hole is all encompassing. Surviving is not living. I want my child to have some stability before he is grown, my husband to have a home to sted before he is no longer able, we are good hearted people who want to contribute, who need fish and mending to the pole.
Thank you for your time, Blessings
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