Unhoused Richmond Teacher Works Full-Time, Unable to Make Ends Meet

Teaching schoolchildren is all 37-year-old Natalie Schexnayder has ever wanted to do. 

But the sixth grade teacher never imagined she’d be working full-time and still unable to make ends meet. 

“It hasn’t been easy at all. I come, and try to spruce myself up and keep a smile on my face but on the inside, it’s a struggle,” said Schexnayder. “I’ve been between my car motel six and an Airbnb whenever I can afford it.”

She drove from her home state of Mississippi to take a teaching job in Richmond two years ago.

“I had no idea that I would come here leaving Mississippi, live in a home and

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