{"id":18252,"date":"2022-03-27T13:13:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T17:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/?post_type=videos&p=18252"},"modified":"2022-03-27T13:14:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T17:14:44","slug":"disabled-homeless-mom-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"videos","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/videos\/disabled-homeless-mom-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"Cori and her daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cori is a homeless single mom living in a Los Angeles 90-day emergency shelter with her daughter. Cori’s 90 days in up on 3\/28 is just two days from now. Cori is disabled and cannot work. She received a little over $700 in disability income, but that is not enough to pay for rent and basic needs.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The 90-day rule is a stupid rule driven by government contracts. Who gets their life together in 90 days? While it’s frowned upon, family shelters can extend Cori’s stay, which is the best-case scenario. It’s shocking that the service provider has yet to find Cori housing or would even consider kicking this young mom outside, but I have seen it happen. No one should be homeless, especially young children.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cori reached out to me and asked if I would interview her. Cori sent a link to this video https:\/\/youtu.be\/jOREQfOZTOs<\/a>. Watching her story moved me, but meeting Cori and her daughter Cordelia was far beyond what I expected.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cori was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome at age 3. She has lived a tough life. At one point in this interview, I had to change the topic, or I would have cried; her story is so heartbreaking.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Cori’s an inspiration. She’s been in the homeless shelter system in multiple states, trying to find support. It’s mind-blowing that a young mother has to move from state to state to hopefully get the help she needs only to find a broken, homeless services system.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cori is a talented artist and businesswoman, even against all the challenges that a homeless single mom faces daily. She started drawing on cardboard selling her art to tourists. Cory now steps up a little popup shop on the sidewalk to sell her art and some jewelry that was given to her.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Cori shares her art on Instagram here https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cortifa_luv2.0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Homelessness is a growing, national crisis. It should be addressed in Washington. Bottom line: Housing is the solution. We need more resources to get folks into housing. Demand action. With your help, we can end homelessness. Click here<\/a> to tweet, email, call, or Facebook your federal and state legislators to tell them ending homelessness and creating more affordable housing is a priority to you.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[283,268,459,292],"tags":[15830,15449,16973,524,15928,253,710,10363,11214,1113,871,888,7487,7282,16972,469,832,1037,876,342,515,508,285,919,507,13717,782],"coauthors":[8319],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos\/18252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/videos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/videos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18252"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-537697-2997182.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=18252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}