Divorced mom looking for housing
I'm on mobile so sorry for the formatting but this situation has gone way too far.
This isn't my story but I have permission to post it.
I have a cousin, she is a very loving and caring person, friend and mother, but it seems like she's been dealt the shittiest hand for trying to do the right thing. Myself and my mom have basically been with her through this roller coaster of the past almost year.
So, my cousin is currently going through a divorce from the most narcissistic, vindictive and flat out abusive man that I have ever come across. He's former military and believes the sun rises and set on his ass. He and my cousin have 4 kids together (my cousin has 1 child from a previous relationship so she has 5 altogether), he did in fact use pregnancy to control her but he doesn't necessarily give a crap about the kids. He makes up excuses for not doing his visitations.
Their second youngest child is autistic (non verbal) and his so called father is ashamed of this. When he was first diagnosed this POS tried beating him to get him to talk and this was my cousin's final straw. She could handle him being abusive towards her (because she could fight back), but not towards her children. So now she's divorcing him and what should have been a cut and dry divorce has been steamrolled and deadlocked by her vindictive STBX for almost a year and the Harris County court system is allowing it. I can't tell you how many times this many should have been held in contempt of court just from my little bit of legal knowledge but I'm pretty sure not following a judges orders is a pretty big offense.
She's currently looking for housing for her and her kids, she can't exactly got into an apartment due to her autistic son and she doesn't want to disturb neighbors with his outbursts. There's only so much that KCM can help with and most of these places won't allow for vouchers or any government help (at least in the Katy area where she is looking. She has to stay in KatyISD for her 2 special needs kids.
I've reached out to KHOU, I've reached out to Isiah Carey, I don't know what else to do. Her job has her stretched to the max, her STBX has her stressed, her kids are the only thing keeping her going. I really want to help her because her kids are like my kids and of course she's family.
Does anybody know some other solutions or who else I could reach out to on her behalf?
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