u/MamaOfHatchlings

We are facing unsafe living conditions and I rent from my mom who will not help improve our environment and we can't afford our bills. My husband and I have no family at all outside of my mom. I’m disabled and my husband just lost his job. We have 3 children under 13. We are at soon risk for electricity cut off and warm water will go with it. We no longer have an inspected or registered vehicle to get our kids to vital doctors visits or my husband to a job. The food from the school is almost the only way we are eating right now. My husband lost his job 2 Fridays ago because of untreated sleep apnea, he fell asleep driving and he could have been seriously injured. We haven't been able to afford health insurance for me or my husband which is effecting our ability to maintain a job . This is my husbands 3rd fire in 5 years due to his adhd and sleep apnea that we can't treat. Im on disability but it's not enough at all. We are drowning and I fear we will lose our kids and our home in the near future. I have called crossroads , 211, blackstone valley community action program, butler hospital, Providence center, gateway, the housing authority, shelters, and several other places. I haven't received any help at all or even been pointed in any direction that may help. We are applying for state assistance but I know once my husband finds a job we will be kicked off help again- last time we were told we were $160 over the income limit for any assistance at all. We have been drowning in loans which take back from us WAY more than we borrow leaving us with almost nothing and that forced us to take more loans and we are in a viscous cycle.
We have a lot of mold in the bedrooms and bathroom, mice and rats and something living in our roof, and our shower leaks and is broken so we only get 10 mins of warm water. Our bathroom sink and toilet are broken. We haven't been able to afford beds for our kids so two youngest sleep with us and oldest bed was ruined so he sleeps on the couch. I'm incredibly depressed and I've been struggling badly with my mental health and I've been in and out of butler hospitalizations. We don't have heat upstairs which we don't need now but our window in my room is also broken so it's permanently stuck open (from the top) and the downstairs windows are broken to the point we can not open them at all or else we can't shut them again, so we can't let air in at all. I'm worried about our window in my room because mosquitos and youngest is allergic. My stove is also broken and only 3 of the stove burners work so dinner takes hours to make.
I don't want to lose my family, is there anything you can suggest?

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u/MamaOfHatchlings — 11 days ago