A 101-year-old Detroit black woman had her home foreclosed on and was subsequently evicted. She has now been allowed to return to her home and is expected to move in next week.
The media reports that Texana Hollis is expected to return today the home where she lived in for about six decades.
Mitch Albom, a nationally renowned sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press and his charity S.A.Y. Detroit, are helping to renovate Hollis’ house. The prolific author and the charity bought the home from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to fix it up for Hollis.
Hollis was evicted Sept. 12 after her 65-year-old son failed to pay property taxes linked to a reverse mortgage and HUD foreclosed. Two days later, the department said she could return.
But that didn’t happen initially because HUD declared the home unsanitary and unsafe.
–terry shropshire
