“I never dreamed I could be homeless. I could pay my rent and still have a couple grand sitting in the bank. I did that because I wanted to live comfortably, and I wanted my kids to live comfortably. Then all of that was gone, we didn’t have a place to live.”
Veronica and her family were doing well when life took an unexpected turn. Veronica found herself a single mother with three children still living at home and one on the way. She had no money, no job, and quickly found herself without a place to live.
The children stayed with friends, while Veronica couch-surfed and stayed at emergency shelters. She was separated from her children, unable to find work, and had a new baby about to join her family. She didn’t know what to do or where to go.
Then, she got the call from MSC. When she came to the office, she was told MSC had a place for her and her kids. She got the key, gathered her kids, and they moved in together as a family again at MSC’s transitional shelter. Veronica shares, “This was my biggest healing point. I had my family back.”
Being in MSC housing has helped Veronica gain stability, she’s going to nursing school and is working. She is saving money for a house for her family and hopes to be able to help her daughters with college expenses in the next couple of years.
“Without MSC bringing me and my kids here and without this stability, I don’t know how I would have survived. I thank MSC for giving me a second chance at getting myself back together, to gain back the independence that I had.”
