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$600 / 3br - 1ft2 - Meet Robert (Asheboro)
3BR / 1Ba
1ft2
available now
open house:
saturday 2026-09-05
application fee details:
0 none
rent period:
monthly
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If you've driven down Dixie Drive near the Speedway, you've likely seen him — an older man sitting quietly on the corner, holding a cardboard sign, asking for enough to get through one more day. Most people glance away. Few know his story. It's time you did.
Robert is 79 years old. He was born in 1946, and for most of his life, he lived in the very house his mother gave birth to him and raised him in — 70 acres of family land he farmed as a tobacco grower until he was 63. That land wasn't just property to him. It was his childhood, his mother's memory, his life's work.
Then someone he trusted destroyed it all.
A man Robert called a friend — deep in the grip of a crack addiction — intimidated and manipulated Robert into signing his house and land away. Robert didn't choose to leave. He was forced out, and the land was sold right out from under him. At 64 years old, after a lifetime of hard work and honest living, Robert became homeless for the very first time.
He had a little money saved that no one knew about, and for a while, between that, his social security, and $150 in food stamps a month, he managed to rent a place and hold on. But savings run out. And when his did, there was nothing left to fall back on.
That's when his niece, Ash, stepped in.
Ashley had spent 10 years working and living on a farm as , raising her three children alone. But she was wrongfully terminated — and because her housing was tied to that job, she and her three kids lost their home too. Two generations of the same family, both left with nowhere to go.
So Robert and Ash did the only thing they could. They held onto each other.
For the past year, they've survived homelessness together in Asheboro — a city they've come to love, and now call the only home they have left. Ash made Robert a promise: she will take care of him for the rest of his days, and he will never be sent to a nursing home. No matter what. His mother was treated very poorly in one and it has left permanent scarring on Robert and it would be worse than anything he could think of.
Now they're asking for one thing: a chance to put down roots.
They need a 3-bedroom home so this family — Robert, Ash , and her three children — can finally stay together under one roof. They already have $1,000 committed by Friday, September 4th — but time is short, and they need help finding the right place fast.
If you know of a 3-bedroom home available in Asheboro, or if you're able to help with a donation, furniture, or household items, please reach out.
📞 Text: show contact info — and we'll walk you through how you can help.
This family has lost everything once already. Let's make sure they never have to again. Let's get Robert and Ashley home. 💛