Building a path from homeless to housed
Tina Blackwell once again feels at home. Her apartment is blooming with plants. She lives alone, save her cat Coco. Her son's ashes are on a shelf ...
Tina Blackwell once again feels at home. Her apartment is blooming with plants. She lives alone, save her cat Coco. Her son's ashes are on a shelf near the door. It was a long path to that one-bedroom in Richfield. Her son died of an overdose three days before Christmas in 2013, and Blackwell fell into a hysterical grief. She spent months wondering what was so great about the drug that killed him. She tried heroin herself. In two days, her body was completely dependent, and her life careened into a tailspin of instability and homelessness.