Mary Davis with her son Maurion, 15, outside the townhome they share with another single mom and her two kids. Tuesday Nov. 4, 2025. (Photo by Glen Stubbe/Minnesota Reformer)
After growing up in foster care, Mary Davis extricated herself and her son from domestic abuse in Chicago and landed in a Minneapolis homeless shelter in 2011 — then quickly found stable housing and enrolled in support programs to receive a stable income and health care.
“I had to grow up really quick…so that’s always been the way I looked at things — like, no one is going to care as deep as I care about what’s going on in my situation, so I have to get out there and get it,” Davis said…