Petition-Stop the Eviction of Jerome Jackson

Stop the Eviction of Jerome Jackson

Please tell Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano, Community Living Services, PNC Bank, and Fannie Mae to stop the eviction of Jerome Jackson and offer a solution that will that keeps Mr. Jackson in his home at a fair monthly payment that reflects the current value of his home and honors the agreement where Mr. Jackson pays 15% of the new mortgage.

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TO: Robert A. Ficano, Wayne County Executive
       Fannie Mae Board of Directors
       Fred Solomon, PNC Bank Corporate Communications
       Community Living Services President/CEO James Dehem
   Community Living Services COO/VP Operations Paul Newman

CC: Edith Killins, Director, Wayne County Health & Human Services
       Sandra Peppers, Deputy Director, Wayne County Health &
              Human Services
       Eunice Howard, Director, Wayne County Office of Recipient
              Rights, Mental Health Dept.
       Mary Rose MacMillan, Wayne County Inspector General
       Jeffrey Collins, Deputy CEO, Wayne County
       Tim Nasso, Chief Operating Officer, Wayne County
       June Lee, Assistant CEO, Wayne County
     Heaster Wheeler, Assistant CEO, Wayne County
       Alan Helmkamp, Assistant CEO, Wayne County
       Wayne County Commissioners

       President Barack Obama
       Senator Carl Levin
       Senator Debbie Stabenow
       Representative Hansen Clarke
       Representative John Conyers
       Representative John Dingell
       Representative Gary Peters
       Representative Sander Levin
       Michigan Legislators in Wayne County
       Selected News Services

I am asking you to immediately stop the unjust eviction of Jerome Jackson, a paraplegic man from Inkster, Michigan, from a wheelchair accessible home built specially for him in 2004. The stress caused by the threat of eviction has weakened his immune system and elevated his blood pressure, leading to a risk of a stroke, according to his doctors.

I further request that CLS, Wayne County, PNC Bank, and Fannie Mae work out a solution that keeps Mr. Jackson in his home at a fair monthly payment that reflects the current value of his home and honors the agreement where Mr. Jackson pays 15% of the new mortgage.

Community Living Services (CLS), an agency of the Wayne County Health and Human Services, placed Mr. Jackson in his home with a promise to pay 85% of his monthly mortgage, while he would pay the remainder from his fixed monthly SSI disability income. CLS also agreed to subsidize electricity, heat, and phone. The mortgage loan originator was PNC Bank., who it sold the mortgage to Fannie Mae.

Prior to 2004, Mr. Jackson lived in Detroit in a rental unit subsidized by CLS. He was thoroughly integrated into his community and lived a full social life. In an effort to save money, CLS urged Mr. Jackson to purchase a home in Inkster with significant continuing financial support towards monthly mortgage payment. A wheelchair home in Detroit, where he had resided for most of his life, would have been most appropriate. However, some caseworkers assigned to Mr. Jackson objected to working in Detroit, so he was asked to moved out of Detroit.He finally ended up at a home in Inkster, about 20 miles away form his earlier home in downtown Detroit.

In 2009, CLS stopped paying their share of the monthly mortgage payment, and causing PNC Bank and Fannie Mae to foreclose on Mr, Jackson.

Fannie Mae has been controlled by the taxpayers and voters since 2008, when it was placed into receivership under the Federal Housing Finance Agency, a U.S. government institution, in order to prevent the collapse of the U.S. mortgage industry. We, the people, now own Fannie Mae. It is time that Fannie Mae implement policies that serve the people, especially the most vulnerable in our society.

Sincerely,

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posted Nov. 5, 2012

Campaign to Stop the Eviction of Jerome Jackson

Sponsored by:

Moratorium NOW! Coalition to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shutoffs
www.moratorium-mi.org

5920 Second Avenue
Detroit, MI
For further information, call (248-470-0296)