Ellen DeGeneres Gifts Home To ‘Mama Shu’: Patch PM

METRO DETROIT, MI — Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, known for bestowing big gifts to struggling people, is helping a Highland Park woman build Avalon Village, an eco-friendly development in one of the most blighted areas of the city, which is located just outside of Detroit. A 12-foot-by-40-foot prefab house valued at about $100,000, donated by DeGeneres and the company that manufactures it, Cocoon9, arrived Tuesday morning, much to the delight of Shamayim “Mama Shu” Harris.

Mama Shu knew the home was coming. She appeared on DeGeneres’ talk show in September and talked about her plans to help revitalize Highland Park, where her 2-year-old son, Jakobi Ra, died in 2007 in a traffic accident as he crossed a poorly lit street. Since then, Harris has found that galvanizing her neighbors to build Avalon Village has had a healing effect. Read the rest of the story here.

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