Taura Brown and supporters reached out to residents at the CCSS shelter, people who were without stable housing. When Taura reached out for community support against the eviction, she started to work with Detroit Eviction Defense and others who were opposing evictions and standing up to nonprofits and their “leaders” who were looking down their noses and making money off of people in Detroit who were without housing or in danger of losing their housing. Taura Brown is neither quiet nor invisible. This is targeting predominantly Black and Brown people, women, single mothers, working class people, LGBTQIA+ people, seniors, people with disabilities, and others. This is part of protecting the racist narrative of ‘Detroit’s comeback,’ which isn’t a ‘comeback,’ but a continuation of the historical Black dispossession. The result of this system’s failure is that Faith Fowler and nonprofits continue to get millions to keep the growing houseless population quiet, under strict control, and less visible. The government and the courts have no answers, so the rulers throw some money at Faith Fowler and others. The numbers of houseless people and families are growing. Reverend Faith Fowler presents herself as a savior for people in Detroit who are without housing, and there are many, many people in Detroit who are without housing. Faith Fowler is moving to evict Taura Brown because Taura Brown challenged Faith Fowler. Fowler moved to evict Taura Brown in retaliation. Taura’s neighbor who faced threats of eviction got to stay in their home, but Taura became Fowler’s new target. Taura openly challenged Fowler in front of other residents and began questioning the intention of the program, which was a problem for Fowler. Fowler refused to modify their leases, which remained 1-year lease. This is what Fowler had promised residents, publicly told several media outlets and raised a lot of money from big pocket donors such as the Ford Motor Company. Taura, who thought the program was geared to homeownership, began demanding that the language in the leases for Tiny Homes residents acknowledge that the residents would own the homes after 7 years of monthly payments. She told Fowler that her plan to evict her neighbor was illegal, and based on retaliation.
Taura started a newsletter, the Tiny Times, that provided information about available resources for her neighbors, and covered issues and concerns among Tiny Homes residents and issues in the neighborhood.ĭuring a Tiny Homes resident meeting with Faith Fowler, Taura discovered that Fowler was attempting to evict one of her neighbors, a Tiny Homes resident. And Taura moved in with determination to work with her neighbors, help to make a neighborhood of Tiny Homes residents and others, and to become the owner of her own place. Taura Brown has all of her dialysis equipment in her Tiny Home and undergoes dialysis there several times each week. Her rent was set at a subsidized, below market rate of $317 per month, she entered into a lease, moved into the home and took up residence there. Taura Brown being able to set herself up, and establishing homeownership to build generation wealth for her son is what encouraged her to apply to live in a Tiny Home. Fowler pushed the Tiny Homes program and raised funds by promising that people without housing could live in a Tiny Home and pay rent for 7 years and then they would own their own home.
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Taura Brown qualified to live in a Tiny Home because she was diagnosed with Stage 5 kidney disease which required dialysis and meant she could no longer work full time. Fowler and CCSS rely on federal funds, state funds, city funds and donations to operate these programs. Why is Faith Fowler, the executive director of Cass Community Social Services, spending so much time and money in her efforts to evict Tiny Homes resident, Taura Brown? Fowler’s main projects include the CCSS shelter for people who are without housing, subsidized apartments for people with disabilities and the Tiny Homes program where people who are without housing or in danger of being without housing can become residents of their own Tiny Home.
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