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HUD:
evicted
101-year-old
Detroit
woman
going
home
DETROIT
(AP) --
A
101-year-old
woman
who was
evicted
from her
longtime
Detroit
home
after
her
65-year-old
son
failed
to pay
the
mortgage
is
getting
it back,
the U.S.
Department
of
Housing
and
Urban
Development
said
Wednesday.
Texana
Hollis
was
evicted
Monday
and her
belongings
were
placed
outside
the home
where
she had
lived
for
nearly
six
decades.
Her son
Warren
Hollis
said he
didn't
pay the
bill for
several
years
and
disregarded
eviction
notices.
"I
screwed
it up
good,"
he told
the
Detroit
Free
Press.
HUD
foreclosed
on the
property
after
Warren
Hollis
failed
to pay
property
taxes to
maintain
a
reverse
mortgage
taken
out in
2002.
HUD
spokesman
Brian
Sullivan
told The
Detroit
News on
Wednesday
that the
department
would
pay the
taxes,
remove
the
padlocks
from the
doors
and let
Texana
Hollis
return
to the
home.
"We were
absolutely
thunderstruck
when we
understood
that a
101-year-old
woman
was put
out of
her
home,"
Sullivan
told the
Free
Press.
Sullivan
said the
department
has told
family
members
that
Hollis
can
return
to the
house as
soon as
she is
released
from
Henry
Ford
Hospital,
where
she was
taken
after
the
eviction.
Warren
Hollis
said he
and his
mother
were
"overjoyed"
at the
word
from
HUD.
"It
boosted
her
spirits
quite a
bit," he
said
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