For the past six months, Chastity Kerr has lived at a 27-bed family shelter in Hartford, Conn., with her three children, ages 14, 11, and 8.
Her current address, the Salvation Army’s Marshall House, is in Hartford’s historic Asylum Hill neighborhood. This is the neighborhood Mark Twain once called home. So did Harriet Beecher Stowe. And now? The Kerrs live here in a room with a private bath while Chastity Kerr looks for more permanent housing.
Her needs are pretty simple: Three bedrooms. A basketball hoop for the boys. A place of their own.
But her challenges are complex. Kerr has battled addiction, so she doesn’t want an apartment in Hartford, where she’d be too close to her old haunts. Windsor might work, or a suburb with decent schools.
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