Ben And Mary
Do you remember the last time you moved? The excitement, the stress? Buying new supplies and home goods, getting water and electricity turned on and leaving a familiar community is hard for all of us—even in the best of times.
Imagine navigating this transition with little money for necessities and no family or friends to help. That’s what Ben and Mary are doing.
Housing is health care
Ray Fitzberger
Last winter, Ray Fitzberger got frostbite on his legs and feet. Doctors had to remove three toes on his left foot. Not long after the surgery, Ray was released from the hospital.
Every day, people we know and love undergo surgery to address life-threatening conditions. If they have no place to go, they get discharged back to the streets.
Are you…
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On your own and under 21
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Living in a shelter
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Staying with friends or couch surfing
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Runaway
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Getting out of the foster care or criminal justice system
…we can help!
Statistics
To afford a two bedroom rental home on a minimum wage job in Maryland, you would have to work 115 hours a week.
The culture makes all the difference here
“When we speak of homelessness, I speak of a person who doesn’t have a key to his or her own place.”
Kim Carroll on Eliza
For many years, Eliza cycled in and out of hospitals, jails and the street. For the last two-plus years she has been safely housed, and in the last eight months, she has not been admitted or incarcerated once. Her home, which she secured through the Supportive Housing at Health Care for the Homeless, is the symbolic center of her life.
