Dell'Armo Family - URGENT Financial Hardships

*PLEASE READ MY 9/24/2024 UPDATE FOR ADDITIONAL AND PERTINENT DETAILS*

For DECADES, my family and I traversed extreme financial and medical hardships, through no fault of our own, often concealed to the best of my ability as I was attempting to make a path of my own. My dad had a prior marriage, that resulted in a life-altering divorce, in which he lost his post office pension, after working there for almost four decades. My mother, to continue raising us and keeping a roof over our heads, had to give up her 401K, use up all savings, and was homebound for almost ten years, caring for my sickly Nana (who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma back in 2007.) My Nana hung up her proverbial boxing gloves for the very last time in January 2021, and since then, our familial situation has taken a turn for the absolute worse. Our former landlord sold the property we currently reside in, and we have only recently been informed that out of all tenants here, we will need to vacate the premises as soon as possible since the new owner has aspirations of his own for our space. We exhausted all resources on two prior moves within the past decade or so, and have since been turned down by multiple agencies for housing assistance. We cannot prepare for our eventual fourth move, since we are still behind in our rent from November and December, chiefly due to my mother being let go from her job in October '22, and me effectively being the sole breadwinner of the family, which has had an immense physical and mental toll on myself as well as the rest of the family. We have two beautiful fur babies (Madrox and Tigger), with us being unable to afford annual vaccinations for the latter. Our food supply is on a day-to-day basis and is usually contingent on what I have left in my checking account (I have been unable to make any substantive savings for the past several years) or what can be acquired by local food banks, and there are many nights where we, quite frankly, go to bed hungry. If it was not for the generosity of a dear friend, we would have not had a Christmas dinner this year, nor anything to get us through the subsequent holiday week. I am trying my damnedest to make a name for myself (currently working at CUNY Lehman College as an academic advisor, and am a student in their English Masters program) and pay it forward, but supporting a family of five effectively on my own has become virtually impossible. My mother is actively seeking new employment opportunities, to no avail. My father (who was recently treated at Westchester Medical Center's behavioral health center) is medically disabled (he has diabetes, heart failure, and was hospitalized for weeks at the end of 2010 after having emergency quadruple bypass surgery, and any Social Security he does receive is chiefly given toward child support arrears from the prior marriage. My two brothers, Brendan and Ryan, are both full-time students and do their best to provide whatever they can from their part-time paychecks toward daily operations. The fear is that my family is breaking apart and that not only are we going to lose our dwelling, that we will have to give up our fur babies, and start from scratch with virtually no safety net. To get through these grueling next few months before we are required to move out, we need to catch up on our prior rent arrears, and all other utility bills we have fallen behind in. Despite only being 24 years old, I am in extreme credit card debt, as we had to rely on credit during these past few months my mom has been unemployed and during my dad's hospitalization. All of my bi-weekly salaries go toward rent, any bills I can still maintain, and attempting to rebuild my credit score (this is the same for Brendan, who is only 20 years old, and has an abysmal credit score, receiving constant robocalls from debt collectors.) Out of decades of struggle, this is the worst it has been, and my faith is being tested continually. I ask for help not for me, but for my family, who have always been there for me. I need to do something for them, I cannot see our unit dissipate because of the powers that be. We have been trying, honest to goodness, to rectify all of these wrongs on our own, we are good people... we give back to this community as much as we can, and all we ask for now is a little understanding, a little empathy, and pointing in the right direction, after years of turmoil and putting bandaids on these much more permanent issues.