JUPITER, Fla. – Late at night, Casey Chenoweth would drive his 12-year-old car, a 2004 Buick Regal, into the parking lot of a 24-hour Lifetime Fitness facility in suburban Phoenix and try to make himself as comfortable as possible.
For about two months in the fall of 2016, with virtually no money but a dream that he didn’t want to abandon, Chenoweth drove to the parking lot, or occasionally to a Walmart parking lot, where he slept in his car.
“Everything I owned was in the car,” said Chenoweth, who was making a small amount of money giving hitting lessons to a pair of brothers, enough only to buy food and gas…