Every day, Cecilia Arvizo would tell her five young children the same thing.

“We’re camping,” she would say.

In reality, it was the summer of 2020, and the family had recently been evicted from their home in Glendale, Arizona. They spent each night piled in the back of Arvizo’s Chevy Equinox, sleeping in parking lots around the city and bathing in a QuikTrip gas station bathroom while she struggled to find affordable housing.

After more than a year of putting her children to bed in the back of her SUV, Arvizo finally got a stroke of good fortune: Glendale was opening the waitlist lottery for its affordable housing voucher program. She applied immediately. She couldn’t wait to move.

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