Mon persevered through the journey to homeownership and get his own piece of paradise with the help of LSI’s IDA program, a United Way funded program.

A Hero Asks for Help. Casey Wright is a single father fighting poverty and homelessness to create a better life for himself and his two kids.

Rhonnie Davis was forced to choose between paying for rent or textbooks. After years of struggle, she was living in her car, breaking out in hives, and studying like mad. And she had no idea how to come up with tuition for next semester.

After her daughter was tragically murdered here, Debra moved to Des Moines to take care of final affairs. But her housing plans fell through, and the veteran found herself on the streets—somewhere she never expected to be.

How a homeless mom took on domestic abuse and addiction—with the help of a United Way-funded program—and won her kids back.