house shouldn t have been knocked down. the house next door supposed to be demolished. that s no comfort to hall instead of moving in this another three weeks finds himself homeless. now all i got is an open lot with nothing. crazy. a whole lot of nothing. andre hall s with us now from pittsburgh. i tell you what, you look stunned two days ago seeing that empty lot. how are you feeling right now? i m still stunned. i can t believe, like, this really happened. what did you tell your kids, andre? i can t even i can t even tell them, like like they used to go over to the house with me to do some work and now i can t even tell them because they ll just crush their dreams, like how do you pull up to this place that your kids done picked the colors out for the rooms? i have visions of my daughters coming up from kansas and playing in the backyard and now it s just gone.
and then talk to the homeowner and see if he s picked his jaw off the ground yet. leave for the holidays. come back and i see a backhoe sitting on my house. this is not way i thought i would start off the new year. reporter: now all andre hall has to show for the work is an empty lot covered with hay. working on it, rehabbing it. i did the windows, put new windows in doors, doorknob. reporter: he spent weeks fixing up the four bedroom house. three more weeks and i would have been in there. reporter: when he found out the house was slanted for demolition, he got a court ord er and showed it to us and it was sent to a contractor. do not demolish in big, bold letters. what happens to me now? what happens to all the work i did on the house, the tools is gone. my family, we can t where are we supposed to go now? reporter: we called city building inspectors saying the
me, nothing. andre hall i even yes. go ahead. i even had my little nephew come down from calu to help me in the weekends on the house. he would come down there. he would come down and help me and now when he we went over to the property. he is like, unc, where s the house? i don t want to take him to the paint picture to show him that this backhoe knocked down by house. what do you tell your kids? what do you tell your kids, like, oh, the room that you picked out, with the colors and everything is gone. you can t play in the backyard. the house that they were supposed to knock down, that s i was going to take that lot over and add on. andre, we re going to stay on the story. it s crazy. viewers, if they live in your neck of the woods to reach out to my blog. cnn.com/kyra. let us know if you can help andre and support the cause.