"I mean, I have hope. I'm trying," Cara Grimes said, about making ends meet amid the threat of being evicted. "It's really hard to stay positive when everything just kind of shits on you." Photographs by Jessica Ingram for The New Yorker Cara Grimes and her fiancé, Justin Pitts, moved with their eight-year-old daughter from Delaware, Ohio, to Bedford County, Tennessee, in the spring of 2019. Grimes was pregnant, and the family took up residence in a camper in Pitts's brother's yard. "We were desperate to get in anywhere before we had the baby," Grimes told me. They looked for apartments, but they had low credit scores and no rental history, and landlords refused their applications. They applied for public housing, but their calls were never returned, and their applications remained, to their knowledge, unprocessed. Grimes, who is twenty-eight, had a felony conviction, for robbery. She'd had a tough childhood, becoming addicted to prescr...