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Hi, I'm a 30-year-old woman living with my 62-year-old mother in NJ...I make very little money at my job ($16,000 after taxes per year, and I receive no tax refund because the government is garnishing my wages, due to student loans)...For the past 7 years we've somehow managed to pay our rent on time every month, even after my mom lost her job 3 years ago; I was using over 75% of my income for rent...In January of 2009 my parents, who have been divorced for several years, were supposed to get remarried; we moved into a nice rental, a house, in February; my father was supposed to move in in June...Unfortunately, he backed out of the whole thing in April...He contributed to the rent until November...He became unemployed in October...Anyway, the conclusion to this story is that an eviction hearing was held just this past week, and my mother and I are left to wait for the hammer to fall, probably some time after this coming Tuesday...Meanwhile, my father is safe in his apartment, after he lied to us and had us give up our apartment and move into a place we could never afford on our own...If I sound bitter, well, that's because I am, and I'm angry at myself for trusting him...And now I'm afraid because I don't know where my mom and I will end up...We don't have money for a security deposit for an apartment, we don't have money for moving costs, we have bad credit, my pay is barely enough for an apartment, anyway...I don't know, we're just desperate, and we don't want our stuff to be thrown out on the street...We don't want to end up living in our car or a motel...If anyone has any ideas about what we can do, please let me know...I know there are many people who have way more problems than we do, but it's just scary...I'm mainly worried about my mom's well-being...So, please, anyone???