Ana and her three children lived in her car, “bouncing around, dropping off my kids, going to work,” she says. Her routine didn’t change: “fighting all the time, chaos.”
Kailani, pregnant, found herself living on the same beach where she earlier had lived with her homeless parents.
Jeri had a master’s degree, worked hard at her self-employed job, and chased her dreams, yet couldn’t afford to pay her rent. The business she launched to provide for herself and her four children ended up failing.