Hi, my name is Myrma Barroso. I live in New York City and am a single mom to a 16-year-old daughter. I am asking for help from my community because on September 30 I am asked to evict my apartment which I have called home for the past three years. My daughter attends a public high school a block away from our home and has one more year of high school until graduation. I work twenty minutes away from our home where I have been employed since February 2023. For the past three years, I have been struggling in New York to pay rent, bills, food, clothes, and expenses that my daughter needs for school. For 6years I worked two jobs just to make ends meet with a working schedule that started at 6 am to 11:30 pm and coming home at midnight or sometimes 2 am to find my kid asleep in her bed and having gone through her homework and her day without me; knowing that I had missed two years of her high school life without me and not wanting to have her last two crucial years of high school without me again I decided to change careers to spend more time with her. Having been raised by a single mother, I knew the struggle my mother went through to put a roof over my head, food on my plate, and clothes on my back BUT I missed my mother because she was working all the time & growing up without knowing my mom, I didn't want my daughter to grow up not knowing me. When 2023 came, having had some savings from the two jobs I had, I decided to change my workaholic schedule, planned to just work one job, and head back to school to complete my master's degree while having more time for my daughter. Because I had some savings, I was able to pay rent, bills, and other expenses on time for a few months; unfortunately, my asthma was triggered in June due to stress and anxiety that my savings were running thin. Medical bills from the hospital only accumulated and didn't help at all, causing me to run through my savings, and not pay rent on time and lateness on electricity and other bills. When July 2023 hit, I found myself struggling, ConEd had shut off my power and light and I had to wait for two weeks until my next paycheck to pay the two months I had owed. Meanwhile, I asked my landlord for leniency and explained that I was struggling financially, and a week later I received a letter in my mailbox asking me to evict my home by September 30 making sure all appliances and the apartment were clean and spotless leaving the keys to the super. With the stress and anxiety & not wanting my asthma to get triggered again, I reached out to my church and spoke to my spiritual director who consoled my soul and asked me to pray and leave my troubles to God. As much as my faith has carried me through all these years and still carries me, I am very much in need of help. I am not one to ask for help, but with my back against the wall and with very little support from family, not knowing what to do to not lose my home and my kid, with humility and grace, I am in need of support. I would like to pay my landlord the three months I owe him, find an affordable place to live, and upon my daughter's graduation find a home that she can call home when she returns on holidays from college & not have to worry about being evicted. I know New York City is a struggle and it's hard alone but it's been my home for 30 years, and with a little bit more time and savings I can say goodbye and start a new life & career. If there is anyone who can be of help, please help me and my daughter and stay in our home for another year or find a new home.