Last June, the Housing is a Human Right Coalition told Brandi Landers it was okay for her and her kids to move into a property in Detroit's East English Village because it was abandoned, according to Taryn Asher on Fox 2 Detroit.
But it's actually owned by Flagstar Bank, and the bank wants it back.
Landers put $3,200 into the house. But she awoke Thursday to bailiffs knocking on her door. It didn't take long before everything she owned was out on the lawn. She was evicted because she was technically a squatter.
Asher says Landers is another victim of the Housing is a Human Right Coalition, which is moving welfare families into abandoned homes in many cases still owned by someone else. City officials told us the coalition created by Welfare Rights chair Maureen Taylor is illegally using old applications and acting under the nuisance abatement program and law that currently don't exist.
The Planning and Development Department said it has provided the coalition with a list of city-owned properties, but they must buy them. They can't move in for free.
"The issue is that this is about politically suspending the program. It's not about a legal suspension of the program," said Sylvia Orduno from the Housing is a Human Right Coalition.
