Please help us to acquire adequate shelter

Hi there.

My name is Jean & I need a little help right now.

My daughter, 2 cats & myself are presently staying in the local women's shelter after fleeing from an abusive relative that we were living with at the end of March.

Despite applying for every rental that I've come across in our area, I have been unable to secure anything for several months (even since well before vacating our prior residence). It's really been a terrible ordeal dealing with trying to move from that house.

Instead of allowing us to fix our truck to use for moving, the relative kicked us off of the property every time we gathered help to get it running & then proceeded to have it towed. She also gave many of our needed belongings away, hid them away for herself, or sold them before we were able to claim them using just my car. Several things that we'd be needing now, including all of our own tools that we'd moved in with, our tents, camping gear, chainsaw, etc. I've even had to buy back a bunch of our belongings from the local thrift stores. No idea what happened with multiple furniture items that we couldn't move atop my car (i got the really sentimental ones first, though).

In the interim to finding another rental, I need to get my truck out of the tow lot to put a camper on it for us to stay in over the summer.

Right now, the bill is $570 + $35/day.

I'm looking for a camper presently also. One that is cheap enough for me to obtain will likely need repairs to be safe enough to stay in longer-term.

Unfortunately, my daughter has gotten sick multpile times in this time, which led me to missing several shifts at work.

Even if i do find another rental now, or get my truck fixed, i cannot afford either the Tow & storage fees for the truck, nor do i have any money to put towards a potential damage deposit or rent to move in somewhere.

I don't like asking for money & i never plan to do this again, but I need to leave the women's shelter - I'm getting extensions on a weekly basis.

I have been working throughout this time as our health allows, but i am out of paid time off for the year.

I don't think anybody can know until they're there, but in my experience, homelessness seems to actually be more expensive than having a place!

For now, I'm just trying to eek by until we can actually rebuild our lives again.

Anything you can spare would be immensely appreciated & go directly to getting us out of this mess & obtaining suitable shelter for us until something better comes up.

Thank you in advance, from the bottom of my heart!

Jean.