Marisa Cervantes, the chief operation director for Family Promise of Las Vegas, shows one of the rooms in the organization’s recently opened complex to provide transitional housing for families experiencing homelessness. (Photo: Michael Lyle/Nevada Current)
Tonya Jones was days away from being evicted when she began scouting out bridges and tunnels around Southern Nevada where she and her 3-year-old daughter could potentially sleep if they couldn’t find a place to stay.
Jones had been able to work from home since the pandemic. But in the summer of 2022 when she unexpectedly lost her child care, she couldn’t make it to work, lost her job, and quickly fell two months behind on rent…