After being unhoused for seven years, a Toledo woman finally has a home to call her own, thanks to Unison Health’s Housing First program and the two women behind it.

I-TEAM reporter Sophie Bates joins Josh Croup on Action News Now to discuss her investigative series Unhoused: The Struggle to Survive.

This week, in part five of Unhoused, I-TEAM reporter Sophie Bates asked city and county leaders what can be done for those families and for the others already experiencing homelessness.

Imagine having to choose between your child’s health and having a place to sleep at night; that’s the choice facing one Toledo Mother.

The Toledo area has several resources and organizations dedicated to addressing homelessness, but that’s not the case in some surrounding areas.

Sophie Bates examines how mental illness and addiction played a role in a local couple becoming homeless and the resources available in Lucas County to treat those ailments.

More people are living on the streets of Lucas County now than at any other time in the past decade.

The first part in the series airs Thursday, Feb. 22 on Action News at 11:00 p.m.