Evicted Detroiter: '100 years old, and don't have a home' [View all]
By Josh Katzenstein
The Detroit News
Detroit— Texana Hollis still can't go home.
Four months after the federal housing department said the 101-year-old could return to her foreclosed west-side home of nearly 60 years following public outcry over her eviction, the front door of the house remains padlocked.
And it remains unclear when, or if, she will ever return to the home on the 8300 block of Carbondale Street. She was forced to leave in September after her son, Warren Hollis, 65, failed to pay $7,000 in property taxes to keep a reverse mortgage taken out in 2002, despite months of warnings.
"Here I am, 100 years old, and don't have a home," Hollis said, rounding off her age. "Oh Lord, help me."
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