A state judge has granted an 88-year-old tenant with Alzheimer’s, congestive heart failure, and limited mobility an additional six weeks to find a new place to live before being evicted from a West River home she lost last year to foreclosure.
On Thursday, state Superior Court Judge Claudia Baio issued that order in the case Fannie Mae v. Cora Winn.
The six-week stay, through Nov. 15, grants Winn the time that her lawyer Joe Rini and her son and conservator Bill Winn, Jr. requested in state housing court Tuesday to finish finding the medically incapacitated defendant a new, affordable, handicap accessible place to live and then moving her out of the Fannie Mae-owned property at 24 Vine St.
“At the October 1, 2019 hearing, both parties were heard,” Baio wrote in her order, which can be read in full here.
“The defendant through counsel, represented that the defendant, 88 years old, was in a dire medically infirm state with limited mobility and inability to move on her own. Counsel further represented the steps that had been taken post judgment to arrange for safe relocation of the defendant taking into account her significant medical challenges and the efforts working with social service agencies and facilities for placement and the positive steps made in that regard.
“The plaintiff objected but did not dispute these representations. The plaintiff represented that the lockout had been cancelled, as appropriate, in light of the filing of the audita querela [that is, the defense’s motion to stop Winn’s imminent eviction] by the defendant. She represented that the execution was being returned to the court unsatisfied.”
Per the judge’s order, Winn now has until Nov. 15 before she can be kicked out of her former home.
According to her son’s testimony and an interview with the Independent on Tuesday, Winn was allegedly a victim of predatory lending back in 2005 when, uncertain of what she was signing, her late husband and a mortgage company pressured her into signing a reverse mortgage that ultimately lead to her losing the house to foreclosure after her husband’s death.