After living week-to-week in the cheapest hotel she could find, Wendy Onofre, 27, was relieved to find a two-bedroom apartment in Anaheim, California, where she now resides with her fiancé, Davi Johnson, 26, their newborn son, and her five other children.
The family hit a rough patch, having lost their jobs amid the pandemic cutbacks and struggling to care for their children all out of school. They were happy to find some stable footing again. But her happiness was fleeting.