101-year-old Detroit woman evicted in foreclosure

[dps]

Yay.  I guess?  Someone takes out loans they aren't gonna pay back and probably had no plans to, and they are taken care of.

In general, that sort of thing is bad, but in this case, the way I see it, the woman and the lender were both victimized by the son, so I don't have a real problem with something being done to help her get back into her home.

Now, hopefully, something will be done to get the son into a prison cell.

[The Brain]

So this woman doesn't live in Detroit anymore? Horrible.

False.

http://news.yahoo.com/evicted-woman-101-gets-detroit-house-back-231901988.html

An 101-year-old woman who was evicted from her home of nearly six decades after her son failed to pay a mortgage got her house back on Wednesday.

Texana Hollis remains in hospital however, after suffering from severe anxiety after her belongings were thrown in a dumpster and locks were placed on her doors Monday, WXYZ news reported.

"I didn't know a thing about it," a sobbing Hollis told the station before she was overcome with grief and anxiety.

Her son Warren Hollis -- who shared his mother's Detroit house -- initially told the station that the house was seized because he didn't pay property taxes for more than seven years.

"I kept it from her because I didn't want to worry her, I was just so sure it wasn't going to happen," he told the station.

"I feel bad. Maybe I should have paid closer attention."

It turns out he'd taken out a second mortgage on the home for $32,000 that he claims was spent primarily on house repairs, a car and donations to his church.

Chief district judge Marilyn Atkins said the court officer who processed the case after the house was foreclosed had been "been working with the son for a week before the eviction was done."

Council woman JoAnn Watson approached the head of the local office of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development for help.

"He said we're going to do something and I said praise the Lord," Watson told the station.

A court office cut the locks and there are also plans to rehabilitate the house and get daily nursing care for Hollis so she can return home.