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LOS ANGELES – A Long Beach<\/a> woman and her six children, living out of their car, have been granted a Christmas miracle by Tito Rodriguez, better known as “Hood Santa.”<\/p>\n For more than a decade, Rodriguez has given back to under-served communities in the Los Angeles area.\u00a0<\/p>\n He recently received a message from Sabrina Martinez with a humble request.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “I read the message, it tugged at my heart. She said, ‘Hey, I have six children. I’m living in the park. I’m homeless.’ So they asked for water and peanut butter crackers. That’s what reeled me in,” said Rodriguez.\u00a0<\/p>\n He brought them food and shared their story on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n “One day our landlord sold the property and we became homeless,” said Martinez.<\/p>\n RELATED: ‘Operation Blue Santa’ by El Monte Police Department helps families in need<\/a><\/p>\n She told FOX11 she has been unable to secure housing.\u00a0<\/p>\n “We’ve been trying and trying and trying, no luck. No luck,” said Martinez.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The family has been in and out of hotels. When they can’t scrape together enough money for one, they sleep in their SUV.\u00a0<\/p>\n Help has poured in through the ‘Hood Santa’ Instagram page, including a two-night stay in an AirBNB.\u00a0<\/p>\n Another donor is giving the family a two-week stay in a hotel once they leave the AirBNB, which means the family will have a roof over their heads for Christmas as they search for permanent housing.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this story came from interviews with Tito Rodriguez and Sabrina Martinez.\u00a0<\/p>\n Heartwarming News<\/a>Holidays<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES – A Long Beach woman and her six children, living out of their car, have been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[8089,2646,131,133,132,100],"class_list":["post-99104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-heartwarming","tag-holidays","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}