Rent & Utilities Assistance

YOUR SUPPORT HELPED PROVIDE A PATHWAY TO STABILITY

Thanks to your support, Tanesha found help when she turned to St. Vincent de Paul, keeping her family safe in their home.

Tanesha says she and her husband were already struggling financially when, in 2021, their son was born with several medical complications. The loving parents spent months in and out of the hospital with their baby boy while his health improved. But, as she took time away from work to care for her son, Tanesha says her family’s financial situation worsened: “We kept on finding ourselves in a deeper and deeper hole.”

That’s when Tanesha turned to St. Vincent de Paul for help. She was connected to Holy Family Conference, the group of Vincentians serving Tanesha’s neighborhood on Cincinnati’s West Side. Vincentians were able to help pay the cost of the family’s rent, ensuring they could stay in their home while they worked to stabilize their finances.

“An eviction notice was never filed, and our electric was never shut off, and St. Vincent de Paul has really been a big part of that,” Tanesha says.

In the next few months, Vincentians continued to offer support where they could. They made sure the family had a turkey and fixings to celebrate Thanksgiving, and brought presents for the kids to unwrap on Christmas morning.

Tanesha will soon move her family to a new apartment in a different part of town, where they can use the Housing Choice Vouchers (Section 8) they were recently approved for to help pay their rent each month. With a new chapter on the horizon, Tanesha says she’s hopeful about her family’s future in their new home: “It will have better schools, and it’s closer to my work… I think it will be good for us.”

St. Vincent de Paul distributed over $2.62 million in rental assistance and more than $742,142 in utilities assistance in 2022, helping to sustain thousands of families working towards financial stability.