Texana Hollis, 101-Year-Old Evicted Detroit Woman, Gets Generous Donations (How You Can Help)

Though a 101-year-old evicted Detroit woman has been taken in by a good Samaritan, she still needs more help to get by.

After the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development deemed Texana Hollis' foreclosed home too unsafe for her to live there, a church member, Pollian Cheeks, invited the Detroit native to stay with her. While Hollis now has a roof over her head, she still needs to replace her belongings that were trashed when she was evicted and to make the home where she's staying wheelchair accessible.

"I don't know what happened," Hollis told UPI.com. "Lord knows, I don’t know what happened."

But some donations have already started pouring in.

A local contracting company offered to install a wheelchair ramp and Cheeks has set up a fund for people to donate to Hollis' cause, the news outlet reported.

"Lord, yes, I had no idea in the world so many people was thinking about little old me," Hollis told The Detroit Free Press. "It's just a blessing, I'm telling you."

Want to help Texana Hollis? Send your donations to P.O. Box 4270, Detroit, Mich., 48204.

Comments

[Richcrafter]

02:33 AM on 01/30/2012

Thank you for the address! She IS America!

[KIVPossum]

12:35 AM on 01/30/2012

Nice that people are helping the lady out. Pity she will move her worthless son in with her.

[porthaul]

12:07 AM on 01/30/2012

To be expected in s developing nation, but here...in the United States of America?

[deeegeee]

10:31 PM on 01/29/2012

Hey,it's the AMERICAN WAY.You're broke...too bad.Vote Girgrinch !!

[souix55]

12:09 AM on 01/30/2012

If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we've got to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it."

~ Stephen Colbert

[MsLadyBlueWorld]

10:29 PM on 01/29/2012

it's really a blessing to see people live to be this old those people need all the help they can get this stories aches my heart these people paved the way for us and in return we as young people need to step up and take better care of our elderly people it should of been someone there to help maintain her home so she wouldn't have to leave it's where she bulit most of her life at but i'm glad to see that someone cared enough to care for her if i had the money i would have no problem helping them out

[Clarity22]

10:13 PM on 01/29/2012

Getting upset at her son and how the situation was irresponsibly handled will not change the fact that this woman has no home and lost her belongings. My heart seriously breaks for someone who should be living out their final years in peace and tranquility. Thanks to the thoughtful indivdiuals who willingly opened their pockets to help her.

[traceymarie]

10:38 PM on 01/29/2012

nothing or no one acted irresponsibly, the money ran out and 2 poor elderly people could not keep up the taxes and maintinence on the home

[Clarity22]

11:08 PM on 01/29/2012

Her son was irresponsible for not informing his mother of what was carried out.

[PristineInPink]

09:49 PM on 01/29/2012

Her son took out a reverse mortgage... this isn't some tragedy this is what happens when you spend or allow someone to spend up all the equity in your house. Moreover helping people when they screw up doesn't teach them not to screw up it just teaches them when they are reckless its okay because bleeding hearts will bail them out.

[callinguonit]

10:06 PM on 01/29/2012

The son...took out the mortgage "to make some repairs" according to him. HE did not tell her about it as he had power of attorney. How is helping a woman who has lived over a century to have some peace of mind teach her about being reckless...especially when she didn't bring it on herself.

[stevestrange]

10:28 PM on 01/29/2012

She's 101 years old...Maybe let's choose another example to place your hardline but valid theory on.

[kennyfloyd]

09:24 PM on 01/29/2012

For all the evil or wrong doing or just the system failure, there will be more good deeds come out of this. The good in people always trump the bad, or uncaring. Texanna Hollis is just one name to put to those numbers or percentages of people that are, homeless, underwater, foreclosed. For every one of the millions affected by the Jamie Diamonds of the world, there is a face a name and a story. More good than bad will come from this one, I'm happy to see. Now if we could just help the million other names faces and stories.

[RealistBC]

08:50 PM on 01/29/2012

Occupy should be all over this. Where are they?

[synbadd]

11:22 PM on 01/29/2012

breaking into public buildings and trashing them

[Cananna]

08:45 PM on 01/29/2012

I hope that her deadbeat son (or was it grandson?) that was behind her eviction does not still have power of attorney.

[callinguonit]

10:06 PM on 01/29/2012

Her son who is in his 60s

[traceymarie]

10:40 PM on 01/29/2012

not deadbeat, just a broke elderly man. The money ran out, it kept them in the house a few extra years.

[Cananna]

01:56 AM on 01/30/2012

All the articles that I've read on this,indicate that he took out a reverse mortgage on his mother's house without her knowledge because he had power of attorney over her affairs.
I would never do that to my mom without discussing it with her.

[Cautious]

08:33 PM on 01/29/2012

There are also two Facebook pages funneling money to Ms. Hollis. I believe they were both started by HuffPo readers, if I may be bold enough to say so.

[demisfine]

08:01 PM on 01/29/2012

Where do people get off calling her elderly son such awful names?
This is a heartbreaking situation.

[kennyfloyd]

09:25 PM on 01/29/2012

Read the original story. He took out a reverse mortgage on her home but didn't pay the taxes so she lost the home. Nice guy.

[traceymarie]

10:41 PM on 01/29/2012

He took out a RM, the value of the home and the payout was small. The money ran out.

[Lou on Vancouver Island]

07:48 PM on 01/29/2012

I'm sending her a hundred bucks from Canada. Lord help this lady. I know Americans are generous. All people her age are true treasures and deserve a safe home with loving care and food. She'd have it up here. Our nursing homes are heavily subsidized. And she had children? Makes me glad I didn't.

[kennyfloyd]

09:26 PM on 01/29/2012

Good for you Lou. If I could I would, but you make me proud for the Maple Leaf.

[CraigVale]

07:32 PM on 01/29/2012

This is what republicans live for ! They all say government should have no role in the well being of this woman and that the community needs to step in and provide for her needs. No doubt with all the publicity she will be taken care of but what happens to millions of others who don't get face time on TV. Will they be taken in by their republican neighbors ? Don't bet on it as the words of former Floridian representative Grayson said of the republican party... Die, die quickly !

[charlot]

08:54 PM on 01/29/2012

Republicans would say that she deserves to be put out of her home because it wasn't "God's will" that she stay there. Every man (or woman) for him or herself. No handouts!!!!! Anything else is socialism. She should just pull herself up by her own bootstraps; it's nobody else's fault or problem that she didn't prepare to be 101 and have a house that was falling apart. Republicans' tax dollars should not go to someone who is unprepared to take care of herself; who cares if she's 101?! God bless America.

[CraigVale]

08:57 PM on 01/29/2012

A sad commentary on the state of the Republican Party.

[bettestreep]

10:11 PM on 01/29/2012

The teapublicans would argue that she should stop mooching off taxpayers and go out and get a job!

You can just imagine Grinch saying this and getting a standing ovation from the audience!

[bailey617]

07:29 PM on 01/29/2012

my heart goes out to her.....what a disgusting country this has become