F or Danielle Vasquez, the worst thing about not having her own home was constantly fearing for her children.

After being evicted from their one-bedroom flat when she became pregnant a second time, the young woman and her partner fell into a shifting, disorientating world of temporary hotel rooms and long, empty days in the park. She would wait there until her partner, Dan, returned from his job at a warehouse with enough money for that night’s rent.