HOP was an experimental program that used Medicaid money to help people with food, transportation, housing, and mental health. WHQR set out to see how HOP participants and non-profit partners have fared since.
Cynthia Brock is a single parent of five living on disability in Wilmington. When she asked management to handle a pest issue at her last rental home, she declined using a spray pesticide because one of her sons was sick with breathing issues. Then, management told her to vacate.
Brock said the cost of getting a new place in Wilmington’s housing market was too much to handle on her own…