As Christine mentioned, there are free lodging facilities. I have to mention American Cancer Society's Hope Lodge. I stayed at their largest in NYC with 60 rooms,12 floors, this past October/November for free. It has everything you need, expect no meals. Anyway, each floor had a kitchen, laundry, and sitting room, plus other amenities, services and entertainment. Staying at a similar hotel in midtown would easily cost $400 a night, and I worked in hotels in manhattan for 25 years, and can say this place was very nice. Anyone can stay, some as long as 6 months, even with a companion, which is preferred, as long as you live an hour away, even in other countries. They usually have them near top cancer cancers, about 26, throughout the Country. Good luck