Ohio Postcard: Eviction

Fatheree had already handled one forcible eviction that day, and the little white house was next on his list. The prospect made him a bit uneasy. In only the rarest cases—maybe one in a hundred—did eviction day arrive without his having had some contact with the resident of the home. Full Story »

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Dennis A. Abbott
3.8
by Dennis A. Abbott - Nov. 20, 2008

Very good report using personal interest to hook the reader. The focus of the story is the effect of predatory lending on the poor. That device is used to make the part played by subprime mortgages in the economy's meltdown understandable and interesting.

As you'd expect in the New Yorker, the writers don't point a finger directly at the Clinton administration, which is okay with me, but a negative journalistic point.

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