the girl's mother, martha biggs heard the commotion and rushed to the door. she opened it and saw seven police officers, a blinding flash light and her dreams exploding once again to the the the year was 2010. the first year that in the united states history the bank seized more than 1 million homes. ejecting approximately 3,000 families every single day to the things began to happen fast enough house. martha yelled at the girls to get in jest. martha and jajuanna began growing bags and running them down to the minivan. jimmya and justices emerged from the bathroom and a female police officer not down to remind them to put on coats and shoes sent it it was winter outside. martha roused her 3-year-old son and coaxed him into the car. altogether the five of them fit that was part. martha and jimmya in the front seat, justice and jajuanna smashed between coats and clothing in the back. as martha drove away from that house that had been their home and headed into salazar elementary school, she knew that this eve fiction wasn't only part of the 2008 housing crisis

it's a photograph of justice, one of martha biggs daughters, and he was taken and want to say this, by an extraordinary and photographer in chicago named brent lewis. and so the story of justice is that she was born during the trials of martha's decade. the story began, one of the most infant housing projects in the country. at its peak it had 25,000 people. it was never intended for that many the people in such dire need that the crowd into apartments. and yet the mayor of chicago decided in the late 1990s that he was going to transform the city of chicago. his plan was essentially to tear all the public housing projects don't come including the one in which martha lives. he also i do plan to build 40,000 new units but, unfortunately, that didn't happen. so martha along with 25,000 other neighbors and her children were if it did and that began a cycle of homelessness that stretched throughout much of the 2000. and when justice was born, she named her just because she said, it will be justice if i am never homeless again. i learned that martha became an activist at the chicago anti-evi