I Lived on $6 a Day With a six-Year-Old and a Baby On the Way. It Was Extreme Poverty

‘It didn’t take me long to go from financial stability to fearing homelessness. In January 2014 I was 35-years-old, raising a six-year-old nearly full-time and six months pregnant without a partner. I was in my final semester of college and convinced I would have enough savings to get me through the summer after graduation with a newborn. By March, that security was shattered and I thought I could be homeless by July.

It wouldn’t be our first time being homeless. Since Mia, my eldest, was born, we’ve been through the gamut of shelters, transitional housing and even living in a camper in a driveway. For the last several years of full-time school and part-time work as a housecleaner, I’d taken out the maximum amount of student loans, making it stretch year-round for summer classes and paying our fixed expenses – around $1,000 a month.’

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