**URGENT UPDATE — September 18: The windows are repaired, but Tré still needs our help.**

First, THANK YOU. Because of the generosity of friends, community members and complete strangers, Tré was able to replace both windows that were smashed during the break-in. She picked up the van yesterday evening, and for the first time since this happened, the vehicle is physically closed and secure again.

But this emergency isn't over, and **we still urgently need to reach our $5,000 goal.**

The van is not simply Tré's transportation. It has been her home. There are additional repairs that she has been unable to afford, including an ongoing starting problem that now needs professional diagnostic work and whatever mechanical repairs are discovered. There is also unrepaired damage from a previous rear-end collision, including a damaged taillight, and the newly replaced window still needs its dark privacy tint restored before she can feel remotely comfortable sleeping inside again.

Right now, Tré has a temporary safe place to stay while pet sitting, but that is only temporary. The larger emergency remains the same: **she desperately needs safety, stability and permanent housing.**

Years of living without a reliably safe place to sleep have taken an enormous physical and emotional toll. This break-in was another frightening reminder of just how vulnerable someone can become when their vehicle is both their transportation and their home.

Tré is doing everything she can to rebuild her life, continue working, create her business and move toward permanent housing. But sometimes determination isn't enough. Sometimes a person genuinely needs her community.

**Please help us keep this fundraiser moving toward $5,000.** Every contribution—large or small—helps get the van repaired and safer while Tré works toward the thing she needs most: a safe place to call home.

If you've already donated, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. If you can't donate, sharing this fundraiser is an enormous help too.

**Let's get Tré somewhere safe. ❤️**

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My name is **Christina Yaconelli**, and I’m organizing this GoFundMe for my dear friend **Tré Taylor** because we need help getting her somewhere safe.

**This morning, Tré discovered that the van she lives in had been vandalized. Two windows were smashed.**

The photograph you see is not simply a picture of a damaged vehicle. **This van is Tré’s home—and one of the windows that was smashed is right beside the area where she sleeps.**

Thank God she was not sleeping inside the van when this happened.

She was staying at a client’s home caring for their dog when the vandalism occurred. Nothing appears to have been stolen, but there is shattered glass throughout the van, and her home is now exposed and unsecured.

She has already filed a police report and found a mobile glass company that can replace both broken windows for approximately **$525**, although the privacy/limo tint will need to be replaced separately.

But I’m asking for more than the cost of two windows because **this emergency is bigger than two broken windows.**

Tré has been living full-time in her van for more than eight years while trying to find stable, affordable housing. She is a senior living on a very limited fixed income, and she simply does not have enough money to absorb emergencies like this.

She has been working with housing programs and has recently been pursuing a promising permanent senior housing opportunity, but there is still no final approval or move-in date. Until something becomes available, **this van is the roof over her head.**

And the van already has other mechanical and maintenance problems that she has been struggling to afford.

Today’s vandalism has pushed an already fragile situation into an urgent one.

**We are trying to raise $5,000 to help Tré immediately.**

These funds will help replace and retint the broken windows, address urgent repairs needed to keep her van safe and operational, provide temporary safe lodging when necessary, and give her enough of an emergency cushion to get through this period while we continue working toward permanent affordable housing.

This isn't about making her life luxurious.

**It is about making her life safe.**

I have watched Tré keep going through circumstances that would overwhelm most people. She works when she can, including caring for people's beloved pets, and she continues creating music, writing, cooking and bringing joy to other people even while struggling to keep herself afloat.

But there comes a point when friends have to say: **she cannot do this alone anymore.**

If you can contribute **$10, $25, $50, $100 or anything at all**, it will help. And if donating isn't possible, please share this fundraiser. A share may put this in front of the person who can make an enormous difference.

Our first priority today is getting those windows replaced and getting her home secured.

Our larger goal is helping Tré make it safely through this final stretch until she can get into stable housing and finally close the door on more than eight years of living in a vehicle.

**Please help my friend Tré Taylor get somewhere safe.**

With love and gratitude,

**Christina Yaconelli**

GoFundMe Organizer