{"id":12478,"date":"2012-01-26T16:25:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T21:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12478"},"modified":"2012-01-26T16:25:30","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T21:25:30","slug":"feds-stop-101-year-old-woman-from-entering-own-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12478","title":{"rendered":"Feds Stop 101-Year-Old Woman From Entering Own Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT \u2014 The federal government now says a 101-year-old Detroit woman it promised could move back into her foreclosed home four months ago can\u2019t return because the building\u2019s unsanitary and unsafe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Texana Hollis<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<p>Two days later, the department said she could return. But now, HUD said it won\u2019t let Hollis move back in because of the house\u2019s condition. She had lived there about 60 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere I am, 100 years old, and don\u2019t have a home,\u201d <strong>Hollis<\/strong> said, rounding off her age. \u201cOh Lord, help me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Department spokesman <strong>Brian Sullivan<\/strong> said that an inspection determined the house \u201cwas completely unsuitable for a person to live in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HUD doesn\u2019t want to pay to fix up the house, but <strong>Sullivan<\/strong> said the department\u2019s seeking other agencies that might help with the work and get <strong>Hollis<\/strong> back into her home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT \u2014 The federal government now says a 101-year-old Detroit woman it promised could move back into her foreclosed home four months ago can\u2019t return because the building\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}