Greetings and salutations to you all. I ask most people to adress me as Drew. My family and I, being my wife and our five children as well as my elderly mother, currently live in an older mobile home. I’m a disabled American veteran with an overseas tour of duty in Iraq for fifteen months. I suffer from multiple symptoms of combat related PTSD and I have degenerative disc disease throughout my entire spine. I have not been able to work since 2020. Our home is a manufactured house that was first set on foundation in 2000, my wife and I lease it through an escrow company and have been paying towards owning it since June of 2018. We love this place and do not want to move, but it is too small and falling apart around us. We have three bedrooms for a household of eight people. My mother has her own room, my wife and I have the master bedroom, and there is one other bedroom that is very small and used for keeping the kids’ belongings in. The five children, our three daughters and two sons sleep in the living room on camping cots. We burn up in the late spring through early fall and freeze over winter because our exterior wall panels are weather-beaten and the insulation is decrepit. All of our windows are single pane and non-weatherized, they are drafty, and so are both the front and back door. The house needs to have an entire roof replacement along with new insulation, an electrical panel upgrade and all home wiring replaced, all plumbing completely replaced and a whole home water filtration system installed because we have minimally treated water that contains a lot of sedimentary elements and minerals, the furnace needs updated because it does not work. The hot water heater needs replaced, all ventilation ducts need replaced – an air conditioning system upgrade from broken swamp cooler to refrigerated air, home air filtration system because all of us suffer from seasonal allergies and hay fever, all floors need to be updated because there are several soft spots in the wood throughout the house which cause fall-through hazards since the house is set on cinder-blocks about eighteen inches above the foundation and the floors are hollow, the property fencing has never been finished, and finally we would like to make some extensions. To the kitchen, dining room, current family room, and the three bedrooms we currently have. As well as adding an additional three bedrooms to our floor plan. These are some time consuming and very costly repairs and updates. One would think it simpler to buy a new home but it is not, as both of our credit histories have been ruined recently since I medically retired four years ago and have suffered great financial hardships, setbacks, and losses. I am unable to work at all and my wife is a stay-at-home mother and homemaker. We survive month to month on my disability compensation pay from the department of veterans affairs and food assistance from our state. However we are not able to save up anything as my monthly amount of disability pay is barely enough to cover only essential bills. Unfortunately the V.A. will not help repair my home and I do not qualify for a loan amount large enough to cover the cost of a home that is legally acceptably spacious enough for us all. I am needing and asking for $65,000.00 in total to help me provide a better home for my family and get everything that is in disarray properly repaired.