I Went from Being Homeless to a Full-Time Writer: Trump Wants to End the Programs That Got Me Here @alternet

I Went from Being Homeless to a Full-Time Writer: Trump Wants to End the Programs That Got Me Here @alternet: We couldn’t have made it out of the shelter without help. Six years ago, I lived with my then 3-year-old daughter, Mia, in a studio apartment. During the day I worked full-time as a maid, cleaning the houses of wealthy people. At night, I stayed up completing coursework for online college classes.It got so cold that winter that my daughter and I slept in the living room, because I couldn’t afford to heat the entire apartment. So instead we kept the doors to the room closed tight, and huddled together on the small pull-out couch I’d found for free.