Countrywide Caves In To Picketers, Public Outcry In Battle To Take Home From 72-Year Old Disabled Woman

In Detroit, Michigan, The Michigan Citizen reports:

• On Friday, July 25, a settlement between [72-year old Rubie Curl] Pinkins and Countrywide Home Loans, which is owned by the Bank of America, was reached in front of Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Susan Borman. The settlement maintains Pinkins in her home in exchange for payment from a reverse mortgage of the money she owed Countrywide at the time of redemption.

• Curl said community and church members, along with State Sen. Hansen Clarke and even Gov. Jennifer Granholm responded positively to her family’s call for support.

• On July 18, hundreds of community supporters rallied in front of the Pinkins home on Holden. On July 22, dozens demonstrated outside of the downtown Detroit Bank of America headquarters. [Attorney Vanessa] Fluker said she and Curl went inside to confront the vice-president there despite police attempts to remove the picketers, including Mrs. Pinkins in her wheelchair.

For more, see Pinkins foreclosure victory.

See also:

• Senior Lending Network Loan Saves 72-Year-Old Woman from Foreclosure,
• Detroit struggle stops eviction of Rubie Curl-Pinkins.

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