BRIAN BROADWAY / FIND, FEED & RESTORE
A job.
A trailer.
A place to stay.
Brian and Allison Broadway found that helping a family earn a living could leave one urgent question unanswered: where would they live?
By Rob Urban · The Inspiration Series
Helping someone find work is a useful thing to do. Brian and Allison Broadway were doing that in Lake County, assisting with job searches and résumés, when the limits of that help became impossible to ignore. A family could be working and still have nowhere to live.
In a 2024 interview with Lake & Sumter Style, the couple described an encounter with a family living in a car. Their first response was small enough to undertake: a donated travel trailer, cleaned and prepared as temporary housing, with help from their daughters, Hannah and Grace.
The work grew into Find, Feed & Restore. Brian is its founder and missional leader; Allison is its co-founder and administrative director. Based in Clermont, the organization works with families with children, connecting housing with practical support.
An ordinary object.
A different use.
A travel trailer is designed around a compact version of domestic life. There is somewhere to sleep, prepare food and keep belongings. For someone who owns one for vacations, it may spend much of the year waiting for the next trip. For a family without housing, it can serve a very different purpose.
Find, Feed & Restore still accepts donated trailers, fifth wheels and motor coaches for temporary family housing. Its team reviews potential donations and coordinates the next steps, including pickup when appropriate.
That arrangement connects an available object with a need. Between the offer and the move-in comes the practical work: understanding what has been donated, arranging its arrival and preparing it for a family. The organization makes a donor’s willingness usable.
The practical imagination lies in recognizing the possibility and then creating a process around it. The trailer in a driveway and the family needing somewhere to stay exist in the same region. Bringing them into a useful relationship takes people, organization and follow-through.
The Broadways’ early work was rooted in their Christian faith and their Living Message Church. In the Style interview, they described outreach as something they were doing before assembling their first congregation. The housing effort developed from contact with the people they were trying to help.
HOUSING FIRST
Time to regroup.
The organization’s Housing First program provides rent- and utility-free accommodation for six to twelve months while families work toward greater stability. Its published approach connects that initial period with support and an affordable-housing option afterward.
The time frame is important. A household in crisis may need to deal with several problems at once. If every day begins with uncertainty about where the family will sleep, longer-range planning becomes harder to sustain.
Removing rent and utility costs for a period changes the immediate demands on a family’s income. It also creates a more dependable setting in which other work can happen. The program is built around that sequence.
The organization’s broader mission includes financial literacy and mental health counseling alongside housing. Those services address different aspects of a family’s circumstances. They require different expertise, which is one reason an enduring housing effort becomes a team undertaking.
The family remains an active participant. Adults have decisions to make, responsibilities to manage and goals of their own. Support can make more room for those efforts without reducing the people receiving it to a story about somebody else’s generosity.
That is the part of Brian’s work I find most useful to examine. A temporary home is valuable in the present. Its larger purpose is to help a family reach a situation it can continue to sustain.
What comes
after temporary.
Hannah Grace Gardens is part of Find, Feed & Restore’s permanent affordable-housing work for employed families with children. The program is intended to leave households with more income available for other essentials, including transportation, food, child care and education.
The name carries the family connection into the project: Hannah and Grace were the daughters who helped with the first trailer. The organization’s development has moved from that early household effort toward a more durable housing resource.
Brian’s account of learning to seek grants gives the expansion another practical dimension. In the 2024 interview, he described teaching himself grant writing and beginning with smaller awards. The larger ambition required him to acquire skills beyond the original outreach work.
Affordable housing also changes the question from “Where can this family stay now?” to “What arrangement can hold over time?” A temporary program and a permanent one have different purposes. Having both in view makes the path between them part of the organization’s responsibility.
Lake County’s story contains both kinds of work. In Eustis, Denise Burry and Forward Paths focus on young people, including those leaving foster care. The Broadways’ effort centers families with children. Their distinct approaches help show why local housing work requires more than one model.
Keeping the address
can be the achievement.
Find, Feed & Restore also has a homelessness-avoidance program. It describes temporary assistance with rent, mortgage payments and utilities for households facing an unexpected economic shock, coupled with services such as counseling and legal aid.
This part of the work can be less visible because the desired result is continuity. A family remains housed. A disruption is addressed before it becomes a move, a lost address or another emergency.
Continuity rarely makes a dramatic photograph. It can still be an important accomplishment. Keeping a household in place preserves the ordinary arrangements that would otherwise have to be rebuilt.
The organization’s Care Coach mobile unit addresses immediate needs from another direction, offering meals, fruit, housing assistance and health screening in underserved communities. It creates a point of contact through which people can learn about additional support.
Together, the programs work at different moments: before housing is lost, during an immediate crisis and while a household is preparing for a more stable arrangement. That range reflects what the Broadways learned when employment assistance alone did not resolve the problem in front of them.
The family connection.
The community work.
In April 2026, South Lake Tablet reported on Brian and development staff member Holly Grant presenting the organization’s work at a chamber breakfast. It is an ordinary kind of local appearance, but one that belongs in this story. A nonprofit’s relationships need continued attention.
The current staff roster shows roles in administration, program delivery, coordination and development. Brian and Allison’s complementary responsibilities sit inside that larger team.
What I admire is the way they allowed the work to become more specific. A family needed somewhere to stay. A donated trailer could help. Temporary housing required support. Longer-term stability called for affordable homes and help preventing the next crisis.
The first trailer remains a useful way to understand the larger organization. It held an immediate answer without pretending to be the final one. Hannah Grace Gardens addresses a different need, and prevention asks a different question again. The Broadways have kept making room for those distinctions. A family deserves help suited to the situation it is actually living through.
I also like that the daughters who helped prepare that early trailer remain present in the name Hannah Grace Gardens. A modest piece of family work became part of a community’s housing resources. The name keeps something personal inside an undertaking that now requires grants, programs and a growing team.
More about the work.
Explore Housing First, Hannah Grace Gardens and the organization’s trailer donation program.
Sources: Find, Feed & Restore’s program and staff pages; Lake & Sumter Style’s December 2024 interview; South Lake Tablet’s April 2026 reporting. Reviewed September 2026. Reflections are Rob Urban’s.