If you want to be as helpful to her as possible you need to be guided by experts in domestic violence--social workers with direct experience-- to guide your actions.Gavin Becker wrote a book called "the gift of fear" which might be helpful.

They want the gifts without the grit.

Fed is giving everyone a massive gift now to just wait for 12-18 months.  

You don't waste there time, you bring them a gift a couple times a year and they will have your back.

ideas 1) leverage  present homes / other assets  ...2) 401K  retirement account funds  3)  heloc on primary home    4)  gift funds normally arent allowed for rental  purchase 

Some rental owners incentivize tenant participation by passing along the savings from this grant in the form of a gift card."

And I was very choosy to buy in neighborhoods of new builds that were not saturated with investors I paid more and they were not as cash flow gifted as others who were focused on cash flow my main goal was Go Zone and then when i went to exit 10 years later I could actually sell them easy on the MLS to owner occs and made a little bit of appreciation while my cash flow was neutral to maybe tiny positive but i saved close to 500k plus in personal income tax over the course of 3 years buying them before go zone expired..  

. :)Your post is the gift that keeps giving.

bring gifts as he figured out what would work for each  ( nothing extravagant)  make sure they had his number and call if anything looked weird so these folks got invested in the project..  35 new builds 7 years later I can tell you we have never had a break in or theft KNOCK on wood cant say that about our rentals though i have had more condenser units stolen than i have digits. 

In tough rental times (like holidays/winter), I have offered an incentive in the form of a gift card if I'm having trouble finding a tenant.