By April Simpson, September 21st, 2020, pewtrusts.org
In May, three sisters in Chicago got a surprise phone call: They owned 35 acres in Mississippi with a stand of mature timber worth more than $40,000.
“They'd never been to Louisville, Mississippi, so they had no idea they owned property,” recalled Frank Taylor, leader of the Winston County Self Help Cooperative in Mississippi, who called the sisters.
Every year, the cooperative retrieves the county's delinquent tax rolls and uses public records, local knowledge and a couple hundred phone calls to alert people who risk losing their land.
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