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After watching a friend commit suicide, Vince Berkey was having trouble concentrating in school. His grades were plummeting. His parents couldn't control him. Even though they only eked a modest living from selling air conditioners, his parents…

After three moves, two evictions and a full year of searching, the welfare and housing systems left Christy completely stranded. Without help from private sources, she and her children would be in the projects, or a shelter, or out on the street.…

Excited by the prospect of a new home, Christy climbs up on the roof to get started on renovation.

Through this group, Christy finds a home for her children. A church puts up funds to buy a run-down house planning to help her remodel it.

A friend at her church takes her and three children into their home. The other two children are cared for by other friends. Christy finds support from a group of friends and together they tackle the problem of finding a place for her to live.

Christy runs out of time and her option for section 8 money is revoked. She moves her stuff into temporary storage.

Without Section 8 money $400 of her $600 welfare check was going for rent. So Christy aggressively searches for a home. She spends the entire 8 weeks looking for a place and finds three she likes and would be able to afford--all are rejected by HUD…

Christy is told she has eight weeks to find a house that fits HUD's guidelines or she'll lose her Section 8 funding and her dream to get out of substandard housing.

Christy gives up and leaves the home. After camping out for two weeks she goes to live with friends.

Christy and the landlord fight after Christy breaks into the house to reclaim her possesions. The police are called and are helpless in landlord/tenant dispute.