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With Ochs Fund help, Chattanoogan Tomorrow Green looks to go home after nine years

Staff photo by Abby White / Tomorrow Green sits on the porch of her “she shed” on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. Green received Ochs Community Fund help with nearly $1,000 in electric repair at the home she lost in a fire nine years ago.
Staff photo by Abby White / Tomorrow Green sits on the porch of her “she shed” on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. Green received Ochs Community Fund help with nearly $1,000 in electric repair at the home she lost in a fire nine years ago. Staff photo by Abby White / Tomorrow Green sits on the porch of her “she shed” on Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. Green received Ochs Community Fund help with nearly $1,000 in electric repair at the home she lost in a fire nine years ago.

Tomorrow Green has been trying to get home for the past nine years.

She said her South Chattanooga home burned in 2015. Because she had no insurance, she’s been forced to do repairs piecemeal, to the tune of more than $33,000 so far.

A single mother with four kids, she sought financial help from various Chattanooga-area agencies. She said those efforts have been in vain – with one exception.

“The only one that would help,” she said in a phone interview, “was United Way.

“It was a such a feeling of amazement,” she said. “So many doors closed until one finally opened.”