MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Addressing America’s affordable housing crisis is an issue many cities across the U.S. are facing, including Memphis.

One woman says she is grateful to know that after weeks of waiting, she can soon move into her new home.

Marie Walker and her brother moved to Memphis from Detroit in hopes of better opportunities and a new start. She says she would never have thought that they’d have to live out of her car.

“Because if I went through this, I see a lot of people homeless, and I’d be wonder what’s going on. Think of just drugs no. Some people ain’t got no other way but this way,” Walker said.

For the past three weeks, she says she’s been calling and visiting the Memphis Housing Authority in hopes of getting some information about affordable housing.

Walker and her brother are both disabled, making their need a priority.

She says after finding a home and paying the deposit, all she needed was someone to inspect the property.

“Stayed on my phone for about six hours, ma’am. Got no answer. Stay on the phone for 30 minutes and go to voicemail. When you’re ready, talk it. Click. You all. Kept calling, kept calling. Kept calling. I’m frustrated,” Walker said.

Her prayers were answered after she returned to MHA on Tuesday.

“He picked that phone up. Dial that number. Somebody picked it up, and he told her what to do, and they did it just that simple,” Walker said.

And after several grueling weeks, Walker and her brother are expected to move into their new home next week.

According to MHA’s website, the housing choice program recently added 10,000 people to its waitlist, which is why the process seems to take so long.

They encourage people to check their emails regularly for updates. They also opened their “project-based” voucher waitlist, and those who plan to apply have until Friday at 5 p.m. to do so.