KSLA News 12 Shreveport, Louisiana |Update: Who Owns This Land?

Update: Who Owns This Land?

Update:
A Shreveport grandmother says the Shreveport City attorney has informed her the land she owns is lot 42. She goes on to say, the city gave Habitat for Humanity permission to build on lots 40 and 41. The grandmother tells KSLA news 12, that Habitat built on two properties instead of two lots causing the mix up. She says a surveyor would have prevented this mess. She still has no idea what Habitat is going to do and is hoping in a meeting on Wednesday they are all able to come to a logical conclusion.  Still, Alberta White Mitchell says the land on Waco street is not for sale.

A Shreveport grandmother says she was shocked when she drove by a lot she says she owns only to see a house being built on it.  The house is courtesy of Habitat for Humanity being built for a family of four. It's on the three thousand block of Waco Street.  
Alberta White-Mitchell says she bought the land 19 years ago when it had a house on it. She says she lived there until a fire that took the life of her 3 year old son.  She says since then she has been paying taxes on the land and has the deed which she showed us.  She also had proof that she has paid her taxes every year. We checked with the Caddo parish and city of Shreveport assessors offices websites and both show White-Mitchell as the owner.
Mitchell not knowing who was building the house, wrote all over it asking the builders to get in touch with her and to move it off of her lot.
Habitat officials meanwhile have stopped all work on the house and believe there must be some type of mix up. Martha Lawrence, the president of the Shreveport chapter of Habitat for Humanity says they definitely own the lot on 3048 and believed they owned the lot on 3046 too. They were building the one house on both pieces of land. Land Lawrence says the city has given a new number to, 3050.
White-Mitchell says its too bad for the family who was hoping to move into the house, because she says the land is hers and she has no intentions of selling it and was actually looking forward to passing it down to her grandchildren.  She says she also has no plans on buying what's already hers.
Habitat for Humanity meanwhile says they are seeking legal council and will do whatever the law tells them.  The house is just a few months away from completion.
Story by Tania Francois