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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Patricia L'Herrou
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by Patricia L'Herrou - Mar. 8, 2009

an incredible report --not many sources, mostly anecdotal, but powerful--on cleveland's astronomical number of home foreclosures and what a few heroic citizens--a city councilman, a judge, ordinary neighbors-- are trying to do to prevent worse conditions or further exploitation. practices by banks are shown to be partners in the social crimes laid out here.

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