Mrs. D works full time at a local hospital earning about $43,000 per year. She now earns less than she earned last year because she had been working overtime hours that are no longer available.  Her husband is disabled and unable to work.  Together, their income is about 55% of the area median income.  They currently rent an apartment in New Haven where they were raising their two children. 

However, the roof was leaking badly into the unit causing damage to their own property, a loss of space because the leaky area is unusable and the musty, moldy smell that comes from water damage.  Their landlord has made some temporary fixes, be he has not been able to fix the problem.  (She thinks that the entire roof needs to be replaced and he doesn’t have the funds to do it.)  They family decided to move into a better situation, but they didn’t have enough savings to pay for both the security deposit and the first month’s rent.  Neighbor- to- Neighbor funds helped her by covering the first month’s rent and she was then able to cover the security deposit.  The family will move into the new apartment in West Haven next week, vastly improving their living conditions and removing the health threat they were exposed to in the old apartment.