<prompt> Human: Im 24, married, and we have 2 small kids and my husband has an older child we have shared custody over.Backstory: we lived on our own, in a fantastic town in the SF bay area. My husband worked and I stayed home with our child. After I had our baby my mom offered for us to live with her and my dad shes a childcare professional and we could stay until the kids were school age or we wanted to move. My husband could quit his job and stay at home, and I could go to work I have more earning potential.We agreed and everything went downhill from there. My husband has stayed home but my mom has been no help. And things are hostile. Weve been paying 500 for rent. My mom has given us 30 days to get out. As far as I can see, we cant live off my income. And my husband cant get his old job back it came with a free apartment.I net 3,300mo. Expenses right now are: Car insurance 73Car payment 200 we own 2 cars. One is paid off. This payment goes thru Aug next yearGas 150Phones 110 2 mobilesStudent loans 158Food 650Personal care 100 toiletries, etcMisc expenses 300 unexpected things like popped tires etcFun money 250 for all of us. Clothes, books, etc...anything that doesnt fall into those other categories and we need or wantAnd rent currently 500.So I net 3,300, budget less current rent is 1,991, which means Im working with 1,309 for rent. In the bay area. If I sell off a car I can afford a 1 bedroom maybe, but will I run into occupancy issues with 4 of us? The last thing I need is an eviction. I feel like my budget is good but any suggestions? Im feeling like were going to end up living in a van. If my husband works it doesnt cover daycare costs so thats a bust. I dont make so little that we qualify for assistance I dont think. Im not sure where to go from here. And we cant leave California because of the custody with husbands child.EDIT: I think what were going to do at this point is have my husband find a job in his field, property management. If we can get work schedules to line up we will only need 2 days of daycare, but wont really see each other except nights. Usually rent is heavily discounted 20 so we should be able to make it work. Kind of breaks my heart to not be able to homeschool as we have an amazing homeschool group, but I think this makes the most sense.Thanks for knocking some sense into us. Im also going to subscribe to some of those food subreddits and do my best to get the food bill down. I also like the idea of changing phone subscribers...we use att right now.Also, check my comment history regarding my mom. I feel like my post came off as feeling entitled to help just because, but thats not really the case.Assistant: Why not rent farther out from the bay? I mean really far. Youll have a terrible commute, but youll at least have a place that will fit all of you. Your husband may have to go to work even if most of his income goes to childcare. Even if 50 is lost youve still got more money coming in.Human: I think she means like all his income wont cover childcare. Which is the case for my family. Assistant: Yep. It would basically break even. So wed rather him be home. Also I live and work in Concord, and work 10 hours 4 days a week. We pick up my husbands child from Turlock. So we kind of have to balance where we live so its not unreasonably far. Im not sure where that would be, for distance and affordability.  <response>: With you only working 4 days a week, this leaves 3 days your husband could get a part-time job to bring in extra money. Also, if he finds a full-time job with a flexible schedule, you may be able to only pay childcare 2 days a week. I know it isnt ideal to not have time with each other, but sometimes you have to make it work. 