It wasn’t so long ago that Sandy Baker only dreamed of what she has now, a home she owns in Princeton where she lives comfortably with her daughter, son-in-law and grandbaby.

“I was working two and three jobs at a time, you know, part-time jobs, anything I could do. I was even scrubbing people’s floors for $10 an hour just to make ends meet,” said Baker.

It was 2009.

After leaving an abusive marriage, Baker and her 16-year-old daughter were suddenly homeless.

“We were couch surfing and we were staying with friends and family, just anybody. Sometimes we would stay in long-term hotels. Eventually, we were in a tent in a state park, Frisco area, Little Elm area, hidden cove, stayed in a park there and paid $10 a day for the privilege to sleep in a tent in August, how awful was that, right

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