FRANKLIN COUNTY, Kansas — Julie Riggins has spent much of her adult life looking for housing to avoid being homeless.
Despite earning a paycheck during many of those years, Riggins rarely had enough money to afford rent for the housing that was available.
Although she was working at gas stations and restaurants, she often had to choose between paying for food or paying her rent. That resulted in her bouncing in and out of homelessness, and entering into shaky relationships with men just so she could live with them in their home…