April Austin embraces her daughter Jasmine Austin, 6, as she wakes her up to get her ready for school at the Extended Stay America hotel in Springdale on Sept. 19, 2018. Austin and her four children stayed in the two-bed hotel room for five days while trying to obtain other housing.

April Austin leads her children, Jasmine Austin, 6, and Solomon Austin, 4, into John P. Parker School in Madisonville on Sept, 14, 2018. She takes her two older children to Withrow University High School before dropping off the two younger children.

Gerald Bouldin, 12, carries cardboard boxes for his mother at their rented house on McMicken Avenue Over-the-Rhine on Sept, 14, 2018. April Austin and her four children stayed at the residents for two months before they were asked to pay $1,000 a month in rent. "It smelled of mold, and you could tell people were doing drugs like crack cocaine. I grew up in a household (like that), so I knew what it smelled like, as well as cigarettes. It was all in the walls, like the walls smelled of cigarettes," she said.

Solomon Austin attempts to look inside a box while his mother, April Austin, packs their belongings on Sept, 14, 2018 at their temporary residence in Over-the-Rhine. "I'm persevering, I'm a go-getter, I'm going to do whatever I have to do to take care of my children," April said. "If I have to clean this house and paint, I got paint and everything, then that's what I'm going to do so my children can have stable housing, because I really wanted them to have that."

Gerald Bouldin, 12, makes the bed at an Extended Stay America hotel in Springdale on Sept. 19, 2018.

Vitamin D prescribed to Genea Bouldin, 17, rests on the desk at an Extended Stay America hotel in Springdale on Sept. 19, 2018. The vitamins were prescribed to address her Vitamin D deficiency.

Genea Bouldin, 17, helps her sister, Jasmin Austin, 6, paint her nails while getting ready for school at an Extended Stay America hotel in Springdale on Sept. 19, 2018.

Solomon Austin, 4, watches television on Nov. 27, 2018, on the floor next to a pile of personal items his family has yet to unpack. It was the fourth place where the family had lived since school had started in August.

April Austin sorts her family's clothing at a local laundry in Fairfax on March 21, 2019.

April Austin buys her children and herself a matching pair of shoes once a year. For 2019, the shoes were blue this year they were blue Air Jordans.

Nurse Kathy McClish checks the heartbeat of April Austin's baby during a prenatal appointment March 21, 2019, in Forest Park. April said she became pregnant while briefly trying to reconcile with her estranged husband, Brandon Austin, in October. She filed for divorce April 30, 2019.

Jasmine Austin, 6, touches her mother's pregnant belly in the waiting room of the Cleveland Clinic on March 22, 2019. Jasmine said she felt the baby kick.

April Austin comforts her daughter, Genea Bouldin, 18, after surgery at the Cleveland Clinic on March 22, 2019.

Jasmine Austin embraces her mother, April Austin, on March 23, 2019. Jasmine broke into tears when she was told that her big sister had to stay another night in the hospital following a 12-hour breast reduction operation at the Cleveland Clinic.

April Austin cries alone in her used minivan April 4 outside of their Madisonville home after a tire blew. She didn't want her children to see her desperation. "I don't know what I'm going to do, I can't afford a new tire," she said.

Genéa Bouldin, 18, lifts her brother Solomon, 5, during the Withrow University High School Bridge Walk celebration of graduates on May 16, 2019.

Galileo Austin, one week old, sleeps in a bassinet under the watchful eye of his brother, Solomon, 5, on May 22, 2019. Galileo is April Austin's fifth child, and the third child from her second marriage.