Taylor was living in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 2022, when he broke his arm, which caused him to miss several months of work. “By the spring of 2023, all my savings were drained, and I got evicted. I was in and out of tents or the one shelter in town, which is built to help 30
Tanisha is a dedicated mother and advocate for her children, including one with special needs, but she has struggled to maintain employment while juggling her other responsibilities as a single parent. An extended period of unemployment had led led Tanisha’s family into housing instability. Tanisha never liked to ask for help, but on the advice of
Jada is a mother of five whose marriage ended in 2024. For about a month, she and her children lived in her car, but at the urging of her mother she came to Our House in April 2024. She and her family were only the second family to live in our new Mabee House. Her
For eight years, Tavia Dotson was a stay-at-home mom in an increasingly abusive marriage, but in 2023 she mustered the courage to leave her husband and find a safer home for her three children. She first moved in with her mother, but within a year her mother passed away. Struggling with grief, having nowhere else
Brenda came to Our House in 2024, fleeing domestic violence, in a bad financial situation, and needing a safe place for herself and her three children. Fortunately, our new Mabee Family House had just opened, so Brenda’s family was able to get a room and become one of the first families to benefit from our
Before coming to Our House, Lindsey had been living in addiction for years, to the point where even her family did not know if she would make it out to the other side. After a period of incarceration and a stay at an outpatient facility, Lindsey felt like she had burned all of her bridges.
After years of fighting a lonely battle with alcoholism and undiagnosed mental health issues, Bradley found a sense of belonging he never had before at Our House. When Bradley became a resident of our Housing programs, he was required to honor our no drug or alcohol policy and has been clean since. Bradley’s addiction made
In the early 2000s, Jason was a resident of Our House at our original location on Main Street, riding his bike to work every day to the Sears building. Since then, Jason struggled with bouts of homelessness. “I wasn’t motivated,” Jason says. “I was wasting my money, and I was holding myself back. I was
Jake had experienced homelessness on and off as a child, but after settling into a comfortable career as a financial analyst, homelessness was a distant past. Health issues slowly turned Jake’s life around, leading Jake to be unable to work, losing his job, and soon, his home. After a period of instability, Jake came to
Robert moved to Arkansas from Nevada with his daughter Cali to care for his mother; however, living arrangements didn’t allow them to move in together, leaving Robert to scramble for a new home. Robert believes it was fate when he drove past Our House! As a single father, Robert and Cali moved straight into a