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NEWS ABOUT: vacant homes

vacant homes stories: 4 news summaries
FORECLOSURE FRONTLINES

 Don't Hate Me: 
 I'm Just Here 
 to Clean Up 

Clearing the detritus of owners' dreams from bank-owned homes

Sep 30, 09 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cindy Reid doesn’t want you to think she and her boss—and boyfriend—are the “bad guys.” But it is difficult when her man is the one “you never want to see pull up to your house. He has eyes that go flat when you offer ... More »

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trash • foreclosure • recession • bank • homeownership • cleaning • vacant homes • repossessions • repo men

 Squatters Find Refuge 
 in Foreclosed Homes 

Activists move homeless families into bank-owned properties

Apr 10, 09 7:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Advocacy groups around the country frustrated by the lack of affordable housing and the surplus of empty properties are moving homeless families into foreclosed houses, reports the New York Times reports. Groups like Miami's Take Back the Land screen "tenants" for mental illness and drug problems and require them... More »

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foreclosure • homeless • vacant homes • squatting

 Housing Crash Spawns
 Ghost Subdivisions

Residents live solitary lives in half-built developments

Aug 2, 08 6:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The housing bust has left ghost towns scattered across the nation, the Wall Street Journal reports. In a tour of half-built or largely empty developments, the paper finds residents who moved in early, only to find themselves leading lonely lives surrounded by eerily deserted homes and weed-strewn lots. One woman... More »

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housing market • housing • housing industry • housing bubble • vacant homes

Homeless Look to Foreclosures

Spike in empty homes provides convenient, albeit sometimes dangerous, shelter

Feb 19, 08 4:52 PM CST
(Newser) - As the nation's spate of foreclosures leaves more people homeless, more homeless people are finding shelter in those newly abandoned buildings, the AP reports. The stock of foreclosed homes in hard-hit areas may well outnumber people on the street, leading many to chance arrest or a run-in with drug dealers... More »

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Cleveland • foreclosure • Philadelphia • homeless • shelter • urban poverty • subprime crisis • vacant homes

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