I am a grandmother raising 3 grandson. I take care of my husband with anoxic brain trauma. This requires full care above and beyond the scope of caregiver duties that a spouse has to do unpaid. In a nutshell, My husband of 40 years and I worked and paid self employment taxes for over 30 years. We were left in care of 3 grandsons from birth. Upon his illness I had to seek assistance. This alone is a miracle from all the different policies to not get you eligle. After 13 year and with the growning need of my grandsons and the need to have to buy medical supplies etc. it has been a struggle. I finally got awarded child support but the state is making the grandparents forfiet to pay the state back for tanf we collected for the grandsons. This left of with a residual check of $75. This lowerd our food stamps to $300. I was having issues with my landlord to repair the plumbing. In the first two weeks the house was stopped up. This was july 2018. I had paid 2 weeks of rent early so I can move in at my pace and schedule the ambulance to move my husband to our new house. We were fighting to get a bigger house since my husband is on life support and other medical equipment. Basically, he has tried to find ways to keep the money saying its a holding fee, insurance fee, pest countrol etc. All along I am having the plumbing issues. Since he has sent several plumbers to fix it. But it kept happening. This caused us great hardships in not having bathroom, showers etc. Kids missed school, bouts of constipation and dirareaha etc. I finally had enough of the back and forth and felt the plumbing problem should have been fixed. It is hard to move and I pay my rent every month. My husbands nurse suggested I get chicken to help with food because she iis aware of the appetite of my 3 grandsons. The city ordinance allowed the chickens and doesnt consider them pets. We have a double fence that I had been complaining is above the lease and I feel only responsible for up the fence. You have to get on your knees and go down the fence line busting knuckles and hurting hands to clear weeds. The chickens were my answer to the fence line, eggs, chicken and teach my grandson awareness of where there food comes from and caring for them. In all these plumbing repairs and issues they know I had chickens. It wasnt an issue until I gave them a letter on the 18 month in plumbing etc. One of the chickens turned into a rooster at 6 month. The animal control came and and left a card to remove rooster. I promply did and my nurse took the chickens since she lost some of hers. Next thing I know I got served eviction papers. He is doing it to retailiate from all the plumbing complaint and money he is trying to keep. He charging me a $500 dollars in extra rent and fees. He came to the house unannounced and I tried to reason with him again even though I had already given the chickens away. He still filed for the eviction. He never sent a letter or allow me to address the issue even though I had already got rid of them. He came back a few days later to say I could stay if I let him keep the money I had paid to move in for rent and the fines, I could stay. I said you are just harrasing me and if we dont address it at the eviction he will find some other way to evict me. Come to find out the previous tennant came by for mail and he left for the same plumbing and leaking issues. They went through the same hardships and loss of propert from the leaks. I am a contractor and know the stale smell of flooring and sheetrock that needs to be replaced. He knowingly has been doing this to avoid the cost of repluming the house and other repairs. I just wanted a comfortable home for my husband to live out the last of his days and it seems I have a target on my back for so many barriers. It will be so hard to move and pay deposits because Im sure he is not going to give it back or the extra rent I paid. I am so stressed we loved those chickens and had to give them up to avoid any issues but still got eviction papers. I him $1500.00 a month faithfully with a limited income and dont know how I am going to manage moving. We were at our previous residence 8 years and was hoping to stay longer at a house. I have no family but our kids and neither does my husband. Our families have all passed so any advice or input would be great. I cant afford a lawyer and legal aid never answers phone to apply for assistance. Thank you