Open toolbar A LIFE TRANSFORMED After Her Family Found a Home, She Found a Career OCT 18, 2021 Jocelyn Vazquez very clearly remembers the moment when her family moved into the affordable apartment community of San Antonio Vista in Montclair. READ MORE A Life Transformed: Overcoming Adversity – A single mother finds hope at Vista Verde JUN 17, 2021 Veronica*, a resident of the new affordable housing community of Vista Verde in the City of Ontario, has always dreamed of being a veterinarian. Although she knew she wanted to heal animals since she “was in diapers,” her path was never that simple. READ MORE Shevon Johnson: ‘A Stepping Stone for Greatness – A Better Life’ SEP 21, 2018 San Bernardino, Calif. – Shevon Johnson is determined to become a homeowner – to fulfill the American Dream that once seemed so far out of reach for the married mother of three who has spent much of her life in subsidized housing. Her new apartment home at Olive... READ MORE A Life Transformed: Moving here ‘just made my life perfect’ MAY 17, 2017 DOWNEY, Calif. – Valerie Aguilar is an honor student, a member of her high school scholarship club, Bible club and marine biology club, and will attend the University of California-Santa Barbara next fall in her quest to become an environmental engineer. Sounds like... READ MORE A Life Transformed: ‘I never thought home ownership would actually happen’ APR 17, 2017 SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – For Nichole Callia, becoming a homeowner was about so much more than financial stability or having a permanent roof over her head. It was about breaking destructive cycles and providing her own children the kind of guidance she never received.... READ MORE A Life Transformed: ‘I feel I won the lottery’ APR 14, 2017 EAST LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The mannequin in Patricia Cruz’s store is a work in progress. An art piece more than a showpiece, it represents “the forgotten ones” – returning veterans who struggle to survive life outside the combat zone. In 2015, Patricia lost a... READ MORE A Life Transformed: When Strangers Become Family SEP 27, 2016 Jasmine Martines felt alone and completely lost. The Hope through Housing Foundation gave her the strength and support she needed to start rebuilding her life. “What I learned this past year is that strangers can actually become family,” says Jasmine, a single mom... READ MORE A Life Transformed: Annifreed & Erin – How a 20-year relationship continues to help student and mentor MAY 13, 2016 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, Calif. – Erin Welch follows a simple philosophy when it comes to helping the most vulnerable among us: “Kids need to have joy in their life, especially if they are experiencing difficult times,” says Welch, Director of Asset Management for National... READ MORE A Life Transformed: From homeless to community manager OCT 8, 2015 Victorville, Calif. – Tiffany Petty is all about helping people. Even when circumstances left her homeless as a single mother raising three children, she never wavered from trying to help others avoid a similar situation. “I have to admit, it was very difficult having... READ MORE A Life Transformed: Helping people comes full circle for a National CORE team member JUN 16, 2015 San Bernardino, Calif. – Keanu Guerrero couldn’t have imagined a better outcome. Growing up in poverty in the High Desert of San Bernardino County, Guerrero knew that the opportunities awaiting others wouldn’t necessarily be there for him. Anything he achieved in... READ MORE A single dad’s story: ‘I want my kids to have everything I didn’t have’ DEC 5, 2014 Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. – Single dad Rudy Miranda doesn’t hesitate when it comes to his priorities. “I want my kids to have everything I didn’t have,” Rudy says. “I never got a good education. At an early age, I was on the streets. When I got a job, I struggled... READ MORE National CORE: Providing Housing and Hope in Rancho Cucamonga JUL 14, 2021 Charlie greets each new day looking out his bedroom window to view the sunrise as it appears over the San Gabriel Mountains. “It’s the first thing I do every morning. It’s very peaceful for me.” READ MORE A Life Transformed: Moving Beyond Homelessness JUL 31, 2020 Before moving to Encanto Village, Robert spent nearly two years without housing. Despite owning his own landscaping business and taking odd jobs throughout the region, he could not keep up with the soaring costs of rental apartments. READ MORE Omeika Candelaria: ‘There’s just such a good vibe’ SEP 21, 2018 San Bernardino, Calif. – Omeika Candelaria lived at the Waterman Gardens public housing project for so long, she can’t remember how exactly it happened. “I’d applied for public housing, and I think I got a letter in the mail that I was approved. But I didn’t know... READ MORE A Life Transformed: ‘I got my independence back’ MAY 15, 2017 YORBA LINDA, Calif. – Zack Collie lost his independence when he was 15, the victim of swim accident that left him paralyzed and reliant on others to perform such simple tasks as brushing his teeth. Now 22, he is getting that independence back – in college, with a... READ MORE A Life Transformed: How Live-Work Spaces are Helping Building Karina Orozco’s American Dream APR 14, 2017 EAST LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Karina Orozco stops in mid-sentence, emotions taking her to a place she’d been trying to avoid. “It’s hard, but I would do anything for my children,” she says through her tears. “As parents, we don’t take days off. We don’t get sick. We do... READ MORE A Life Transformed: ‘My kids and I have been blessed’ MAR 16, 2017 YORBA LINDA, Calif. – When Sarah Jones lost her job and any chance at child support in one of the most expensive housing markets in the United States, the mother of four children had a difficult decision to make: Remove her kids from the community and schools they’d... READ MORE Lives Transformed: Giving back after years of desperation and homelessness JUN 29, 2016 SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – Living homeless in “the field,” raising her young daughter by whatever means she could, Lisa Ponder often wondered if she would ever again have a roof over her head. Life in a tent – surrounded by others who, like you, had lost just about... READ MORE A Life Transformed: ‘I’m a driven person, and it is a rewarding feeling to know that there is help out there’ MAR 1, 2016 San Clemente, Calif- Kyril Bojckov doesn’t want a handout. At 27 with three jobs and monthly income of less than $3,000, he pays his bills on time and looks forward to moving up in the world. For now, however, he couldn’t be more grateful for the opportunity to live... READ MORE A Life Transformed: How Hope through Housing’s After School Program Paved the Path to College and Beyond AUG 31, 2015 Montclair, Calif. – The Hope through Housing Foundation’s After School and Beyond program dared Itzel Farias to dream. Now 18 and beginning her second year at the University of California-Santa Barbara, Itzel is doing the rest. “I moved here when I was 10 years old,”... READ MORE How Lives Are Transformed by Hope through Housing’s After School and Beyond Program APR 10, 2015 Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. – The Hope through Housing Foundation’s After School and Beyond program serves 1,300 low-income and at-risk children at 32 sites. Those are the numbers. The real stories are of young people with opportunities they might never have had... READ MORE ‘I never thought in my wildest dreams I would end up here…This is my castle’ NOV 7, 2014 At 73 with a litany of health issues, Judy never figured she would have the opportunity to live in a community as “high class” as the Fountains at Sierra in Fontana. READ MORE • • • • Building the Future of Community • • • • © National CORE | Privacy Policy