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Metro Detroit Couple Helps Detroit Resident Keep Home
The local Detroit resident was deemed ineligible for federal pandemic aid because she was buying her home though a land contract.
DETROIT — An anonymous Metro Detroit couple helped pay-off a local Detroit resident's home, after she was declared ineligible to obtain pandemic aid, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Colandra Boyd-Hopson, 51, lost her husband to COVID-19 last year, which made it difficult for her to keep up on her house payments.
Ans since was buying her home through a land contract, she was disqualified from receiving any kind of federal aid during the pandemic.
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Then after the Detroit Free Press featured her story in February, an anonymous Metro Detroit couple donated $16,500 to a local nonprofit so she could pay off her land contract and own her home.
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