Mini-Dylan’s Housing Support Story

[00:00–00:12] Anything you draw in seven seconds I'll buy you. You ready? 5.00. What's that? That's a tent. Why do you want a tent?

[00:12–00:18] We're about to be homeless. In about two weeks. Um... You and your daughter? Is this your daughter? I have two other kids too.

[00:18–00:28] So yeah. So we need a tent. How old are you? Seven. Would you rather go get a? Or give sioo to somebody.

[00:28–00:40] In target? Give $100 to somebody. You wanna go find somebody to help? My daughter would like to give you something today. She wanted to give it to you instead of keeping it. Thank you so much.

[00:40–00:52] It's only getting harder each and every day. I hate to see other people go through it. Yeah me too. I hate going through it myself but we'll figure it. Oh you'll figure it out. I promise you that.

[00:52–01:05] Yeah we will go through every day but. Keep a smile on our face every day. We do this for our kids. We do, that's why we keep truckin. Can I give you a hug? Yeah yeah.

[01:06–01:16] That was your first instinct. Was to help them out? Who taught vay, to be that? God. God taught voy to be that. Since you decided to give the money away.

[01:16–01:28] I have something for you. [Unclear caption at source; exact wording requires source-level review.] You don’t have to do that. What can we get with? A house. So what happens if you don't find welace witend a.

[01:28–01:38] "I really don't have a plan. I started packing my house. I work full time lave been a cna for 10 vears. O work my butt off. I got three kids to provide for and... Yeah.

[01:38–01:45] What's making it hard to get a place? I don't want to always say it's money. But you know it's. Yeah. There's never enough. I’ve always been so independent.

[01:45–01:57] You know always been able to provide for my family. And I’ve had such a short eviction notice that. You know it's been hard to try to find—. How short was the eviction notice? It was like a month you. A month?!

[01:57–02:05] I had about a month. Really? Yeah and in my area. There's not a whole lot to rent for a reasonable. Is it just you? It's me and yeah.

[02:05–02:18] Me and my three kids. For a house that I had originally looked at. You know it was $5250 for the down payment. It's $5250 dollars. I have put away some funds. But like I said you always.

[02:18–02:26] Fall short. Just a little bit. They always see a smile on my face though. O is it hard being a single. Yeah. Some days you don't wanna get up out of bed.

[02:26–02:34] But you gotta keep going but wel. Bút you gotta keep going. I mean we're fed we're. We're happy we got each. Right? Yeah yeah.

[02:34–02:47] Can we pray now? You wanna pray? Lord thank you for this. Thank you for this day. Thank you for keeping everybody safe. Amen amen amen.

[02:47–02:52] Good job squirt. It's been tough. I know.