FORT LAUDERDALE — Across South Florida, there are people experiencing homelessness despite being in the workforce.
“I have no safe home to go to,” said Deborah Lipski. “That’s all I want.”
The 68-year-old told CBS News Miami she cries herself to sleep at night. Sharing her story while sipping her morning coffee at a local shop in Fort Lauderdale, where she spends most of her mornings now that she no longer has a place to live.
She has a relentless spirit during the day, trying to find a place to call home.
“I don’t get callbacks about someone willing to help me,” shared Lipski.
Her life and housing situation changed forever last December.
While revealing her prosthetic leg, she shows that she had her right foot amputated. Lipski said it was after she fell down a stairwell leading to a room she had rented for over a decade.
“I walked into the emergency room, and I didn’t walk out until April of this year,” Lipski said. “And it was without my foot.”