MIAMI -- A family of 12 was forced out of a northwest Miami-Dade County home, but they moved back in on Monday and refused to leave.

Carolyn Conley and her daughter, grandchildren and great-grandchildren were evicted from their foreclosed home in the 800 block of Northwest 137th Street on Friday.

After spending the weekend living on the streets, Conley and her family members, urged on by a throng of supporters, illegally broke into their home, which is now the property of a bank.

Conley claimed she lost the house because she did not understand her refinanced mortgage. Conley said she thought she had a reverse mortgage and was paying only taxes when she realized that she was so far into back payments she could not make it up. That is when the eviction notice came, and police moved her out of the home.

"This is my home. I'm here to take back my home. These banks and these people that sit behind a desk and say they're going to do this and do that need to get out here, come live on the streets," Conley said.

"My children, all of us lived in this home, and they want to come in here like it's nothing and just yank the home away from her," said Mary Trody, who lived at the house with Conley.

The group Take Back the Land organized the break-in. Its mission is providing housing for families facing homelessness.

"The chances of a bank or anyone else selling this house in this market are zero. There's no chance it's going to be sold, which means you're going to have an empty house sitting on the street while you have 12 human beings living on the street or living in a van," said Max Rameau of Take Back the Land.

Once they had broken in, the family began taking furniture, pets and children into the house and began to settle back in.

The family's celebration was short-lived. A relocation company worker checking on the status of the home was upset to see they had moved back in. He had no choice but to alert Miami-Dade police. The police can now arrest anyone in the family for tresspassing.

"The Realtor offered her $2,000 to move, and she rejected it. She said no, she was not moving until we showed up with trucks on Friday," said Chris Veloz of Velozic Relocation Services.

Conley's family members said they do not have many options. They said several of them lost their jobs in the last year, which forced them to move into the house with their grandmother.

The bank said it is a liability for the family to be there.

"I was hoping that this would end better. I was hoping God would intervene," Conley told local 10's Neki Mohan.