All Boarded Up - How Cleveland is Dealing With Mass Foreclosure

Tony Brancatelli, a Cleveland City Councilman, yearns for signs that something like normal life still exists in his ward. Early one morning last fall, he called me from his cellphone. He sounded unusually excited. He had just visited two forlorn-looking vacant houses that had been foreclosed more than a year ago. They sat on the same lot, one in front of the other. Both had been frequented by squatters, and Brancatelli had passed by to see if they had been ... Full Story »

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Peter L. Combs
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by Peter L. Combs - Mar. 8, 2009

Well done from start to finish, loads of depth and detail, good anecdotes. The perfect presentation of what happens to a vibrant city after nearly 50 years of bad government policy's on manufacturing and fewer restrictions on imports.

Expect more....stories just like this. The USA has to smarten up with our trading partners, or we can become a country mirroring Cleveland. Just pathetic.

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