Evicted 101-year-old Detroit woman can't go home

Thanks to the kindness of the lady letting her live with her-still good people in this world-

think of all the stories ths lady could tell . what she has seen in her life time .

I wish I was wealthy and could help her. No one that age should have to worry about housing, heating or eating. Especially in this country!

Something wrong with a society that does not honor and take care of its elders.

Where are the "community organizers"? You mean they couldn't get enough vollenteers to help clean up her house and do a few repairs? Her Church? Nobody would help with the back taxes? Her son didn't do it, but c'mon she's been in that neighborhood for 60 years. That's the saddest article I've read in a while. That reverse mortgage stuff sounds like a crock too, I thought you could live in it until you died, that's why you have to be old to get one, but 32,000 bucks? How long could that last, a few years? So many troubling aspects of this story. I don't have much, but if they had a web site or anything listed I would have given something.

101 year old people deserve a decent place to live.

Welcome to america where we support 3rd world countries but not our own.

so let me get this straight...she is 101 and not one contractor, or volunteer group, no one can help this woman? really? This is the world we live now? What about the church she belongs to? No one can help her? Sheesh!! That is truly sad and heartbreaking. live to be a hundred and what does it get you?...homeless! ugh!

This country is a joke...send billions of dollars to people who hate our guts but we can't help one of our own live out the rest of her days in peace. We make me sick!!

The government doesn't want to pay to clean it up but its ok with sending $800 million a year to Pakistan.

WOW! not even HUD themselves could extend a helping hand and yet shockingly, our gov't could send billions in taxpayers money to unfriendly countries with the flick of a finger???

This is the most disgusting story I've read in a L-O-N-G time.
HHS needs to get this lady a home immediately.
If they can provide housing for 24 year old lazy baby machines, surely they can find a nice home for this woman.
And, it needs to be done.....yesterday.

God Bless her friend Polly for taking her in. What is her good for nothing son doing while his Mother is homeless? Spending her social security?

There shouldn't be "homelessness" in America PERIOD !!!!

This is what is wrong with this country. everything is money, money, money. $32,000. in dilapidated Detroit, and the woman is a 101 years old. shame on HUD, and shame on the son for not taking care of the problem sooner.

I feel bad for her and we do need to treat our elderly better. However, if HUD deemed it unsafe I'm thinking it is a hording situation, and that is not safe for her.

Our government thinks it is better to live with no shelter from the elements than an old house that doesn't comply with current building codes.
Remember when the city of chicago tore down all the make-shift shelters the homeless had erected because they had neither running water nor electricity.
I am an old man now but I was born and grew up in a home that was without indoor plumbing, water and electricity. You might call it a 3 bedroom with path these days. But we were happy and glad to have it.

How in the world did they get a reverse mortgage on such a run-down property? And it was a government reverse mortgage at that?

It's kind of funny that everyone's blaming the community and the government for not taking care of this woman, when REALLY, everyone should be focusing on the son who didn't pay the taxes after taking out a reverse mortgage on his poor mother's home. How shameful to let your mom be put in that situation!

The government does not care about your age or gender or race, all the government cares about its getting your money.