
Shari Brown has no place to cook dinner. The hot plates in her hotel room just don’t cut it, but that’s all she has on hand. A shared microwave on the third floor is the only alternative. It’s been more than a year since the Newark resident had a consistent place to cook for her three kids. When it’s time to eat, Brown, 36, has few options: Prepared food from the supermarket, help from strangers who bring home-cooked meals, or if she has a few dollars to spare, takeout. Sometimes she’s able to take the kids — Trinity, 10; Tristan, 9; and Tafira, 3 months — to her mother’s house and cook. But n…