I’ve been calling everyone to ask for help paying my utility bill and my rent. Social services and the salvation army are telling me they really cannot help me. I told them I can’t work because I don’t have anyone to watch my three grandchildren. All three of my grandkids have a disability. Two of them have asthma, and my other grandson is on medication for disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. (more…)

For the covid crisis, the government only wants to give us $1,200 the first time and $600 this time. How is that paying our rent? Or bills? There’s no jobs. There’s nothing. We need help. We should get $1,200 a month to be able to pay for bills and rent.

Long story short, my landlord, even though I paid my rent, still filed a malicious eviction around the time the pandemic began in 2020. This was a frivolous attempt to keep my $850 deposit. I was being harassed by the landlord and his tenants. I was the only FM in the house, plus I have proof of persecution as well. The landlord even put a fake ad out there to prevent me from moving, and he told me in a text he knew everyone who rented. I have proof of foul play and am being prevented from seeking legal help. Even the judge denied the removal of the eviction when I proved this to her and had a witness to the event.

Hello, my name is Carita. I was behind on rent for one month this past October. I applied for help with rent, and I had talked to my landlord about it and he said ok. I did all the necessary paperwork and got approved, but the landlord didn’t want to sign the paperwork. I also filled out an eviction moratorium form, but he wouldn’t take it. I was served eviction papers, and in court the judge granted the eviction.

My home was foreclosed on in August of 2019. Wells Fargo was the servicer. They refused to answer my questions that I sent to them in a certified document, and then sent me an absolutely ridiculous document that had nothing to do with my mortgage or the loan. At the time I was living by myself in the home, with no family to assist me. I was having to pay some serious household expenses, such as getting my furnace fixed in the middle of winter with no heat. I had to get a heating company to fix it, and of course the cost was the exact amount of the mortgage payment. Well, Wells Fargo did not believe me, and they foreclosed my home and and sold it at an online auction on August 18, 2020. (more…)

My dad was a Vietnam war veteran and worked hard all his life. He became a widower in 1998, but eventually remarried and had a daughter—my sister. After a couple of years of living in a small trailer house, he and his wife had a Jim Walters home built on his wife’s property in Pleasanton, Texas, in early 2000. After 17 years of happiness, the mortgage company sent a notice that the property taxes were behind, and that they were going add the total to the bill. (more…)

My three children and I have just been served eviction papers due to back rent being due. We were verbally asked to vacate as soon as possible. We were one and a half months behind on rent, but always paying something when we could. A lot of Americans can say the same right now due to this pandemic crisis. Two of my kids are adults—18 and 21—and they never received their pandemic unemployment benefits. One of them didn’t even get a stimulus check. I had received my PUA benefits, and I paid as much as I could as often as possible to our landlord. Meanwhile we are struggling to afford everyday household necessities, trying to keep our phones on, struggling to keep my newly-opened online business running, and to have food when our SNAP benefits are delayed or run out. (more…)

My husband always jokes with me that I lived a sheltered life growing up. It’s true—I never saw a homeless person in my hometown of Muskogee, Oklahoma, and our Salvation Army was a thrift store, not a shelter. But I’d always considered us a “poor” family. I grew up using food stamps, usually only got one Christmas present, and I knew what it was like to do without utilities while my dear mother waited for her next check so we could have them turned back on. So I was completely thrown off when the family I have now ended up living in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, at the local Salvation Army shelter, and later at the Tulsa Day Center for the homeless. It was a whole new world for me. One that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. (more…)

I lived with my boyfriend of 13 years in the home that he was raised in since kindergarten. The home was left to him and his two other siblings. His sister filed for bankruptcy, and she didn’t list the home as exempt. Because of this, we were evicted from the home that was completely paid for. I just don’t get how the bankruptcy and her lawyer could do this to us. I’m so upset because I lost things like my children’s pictures when they were little. I can never replace them. I also lost my father’s ashes. (more…)

My story begins in September 2019, when my partner of 13 years was diagnosed with liver cancer. We had our own business and home and five children living with us. Their ages ranged between 6 and 20. It was the beginning of a journey that marked many challenges for me, and what I feared most was being left without a home or a father for my children. (more…)