Evicted 101-year-old Detroit woman can't go home (property unsafe)
DETROIT (AP) The federal government now says a 101-year-old Detroit woman it promised could move back into her foreclosed home four months ago can't return because the building's unsanitary and unsafe.
Texana Hollis was evicted Sept. 12 and her belongings placed outside after her 65-year-old son failed to pay property taxes linked to a reverse mortgage and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development foreclosed on the home.
Two days later, the department said she could return. But now, HUD said it won't let Hollis move back in because of the house's condition. She had lived there about 60 years.
"Here I am, 100 years old, and don't have a home," Hollis said, rounding off her age. "Oh Lord, help me."
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/evicted-101-old-detroit-woman-cant-home-205304894.html
I knew there was more to this story. I wonder what it will take to get the home up to code.
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)in the first place.
It just seems very interesting...
Snake Alchemist
(3,318 posts)If it's that bad then it sounds like she or her son (more likely) scammed the mortgage company into a reverse mortgage company when the house is about to fall down.
Justice wanted
(2,657 posts)Snake Alchemist
(3,318 posts)This is the problem with code compliance. I spent my entire weekend ripping out cloth covered wire from a house I just built and putting in NM wire. It's amazing they let you "grandfather" the code requirement because that stuff is incredibly dangerous.
yellowcanine
(35,692 posts)Seems to be a real lack of imagination breaking out all over the place with this situation.
Snake Alchemist
(3,318 posts)Bigmack
(8,020 posts)or something, but HELLO!!!!???? Seems to me that when you're 101, you can live where ever you DAMN WELL PLEASE! OK, so the house isn't up to code and yes it would be lovely if habitat for humanity or some such organization would fix up the place for her, but kicking her out sure as hell isn't going to EXTEND her life any! Ms Bigmack
Snake Alchemist
(3,318 posts)Or a mail carrier falls through the deck and breaks both of his legs. The codes are there for a reason.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)If she lived there for 60 years, there are things like requirements to have wall outlets no more than a certain number of feet apart that would require rewiring the place.
This was the case in a late '40s home in NW Detroit that a relative owned.
These are usually sold at a significant discount to renovaters who upgrade them to code before selling them to a new occupant.
Snake Alchemist
(3,318 posts)Fairly scary the things you find that they used to do.