Housing
He Earned More But Lost His Prescriptions — One Omaha Man’s Rude Awakening About Medicaid and the Income Cliff
The first thing Pastor Darnell Webb told me about Miguel Fulton was that he never…
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A Legal Secretary Making $21,400 a Year Had No Health Insurance for Four Months — Medi-Cal Was the Answer He Didn’t Know Existed
Harvey Tran was sitting in his car outside an urgent care clinic in East San…
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Behind on Property Taxes and Drowning in Student Loans at 50 — How Donovan Hensley Is Rebuilding After Three Financial Crises
The federal student loan on-ramp repayment period — which shielded millions of borrowers from credit…
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Widowed, Behind on Property Taxes, and Still Paying Student Loans at 66: How One Tampa Woman Is Surviving the System
What would you do if, in the span of eighteen months, your insurance company dropped…
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No Retirement Savings, a Crumbling Roof, and $4,800 Overdue in Property Taxes — How One San Jose Father Is Holding On
What would you do if you owned a home but couldn’t afford to keep it…
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Our Homeowner’s Insurance Was Cancelled and My Spouse Had Hidden $42,000 in Debt — The Program That Kept Our Family in Our Home
Most people assume government housing assistance is built for the very poor. Andre Bianchi’s story…
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A Birmingham Barber’s Rent Jumped $400 a Month — What He Found Out About Housing Assistance Too Late
The morning I met Clint Ramos, he was sweeping up hair clippings from the floor…
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She Earned Too Much to Ask for Help — Until a Stranger at a Pharmacy Showed Her What She Was Missing
What would you do if you earned a decent income, paid your bills on time…
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She Made Too Much to Qualify but Too Little to Cope — One Bus Driver’s Fight for Housing Help After Her Rent Jumped 30%
The waiting room at Louisville’s downtown Social Security Administration office smells faintly of industrial cleaner…
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After Identity Theft Wrecked Her Credit, This Columbus Woman Found a Housing Repair Grant That Didn’t Need a Credit Score
The application deadline for Columbus’s Emergency Home Repair Assistance program closes every fiscal quarter, and…