coronavirus pandemic. Mum-of-one Shelby Hughes made a life for herself in Berkeley, California but life turned upside down when the pandemic hit.
Shelby said she immediately lost both of her jobs due to Covid-19 and was unable to afford rent, leaving her with no choice but to live in her car.
Her little boy, Callen, went from having "his own room and going to daycare" to living in their car, parked up at a campsite.The mum described the nights as "frightening" to ABC 7 and said it breaks her heart to think of herself as a "failure." Shelby told ABC 7: "He went from having his own room and going to daycare, seeing his friends, to now just me in the car, going camping."Showing the station around her makeshift home, Shelby said: "This right.