Phyllis and Zabrina Johnson, mother and daughter, had run out of options. Their house in Lyttonsville near downtown Silver Spring was falling apart around them. The mother, disabled by two strokes, diabetes and heart problems, and the daughter, laid off from her job and responsible for her mother's care, reached out.

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