Homeless, need a job and housing

“Homeless need a job and housing – here’s how to do both at the same time”
Sacramento Bee – Mar 17, 2018

Two years ago, Miriam Wheatley was running out of hope. She was living in a homeless shelter, working at a dead-end job, and desperately trying to figure out how to support herself and her young son. “I just plain didn’t have enough money,” Wheatley told me. “It didn’t matter that I had experience or that I had graduated college. I didn’t have enough money to pay rent.”

Many Californians in her situation would have ended up right back on the streets, their children in foster care. But on Wednesday afternoon, I watched Wheatley, dressed to impress in a royal blue suit, walk across a stage at the Mack Powell Event Center and become one of the first people in Sacramento to earn a certificate in property management through the REstart pilot program.