The two google maps below — showing Las Vegas and Laguna Woods — help us understand the extent of the foreclosure crisis in the U.S. (at HuffPo). Each red dot represents a foreclosure.
Las Vegas, NV:
Laguna Woods, CA:
These illustrations are nicely complemented by our posts featuring the empty housing grids of California City andhalf-home foreclosures, or the dilemma of the duplex.
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Comments 1
Jeremiah — November 29, 2010
Pedantic: It's not a 'foreclosure crisis' - it's a systemic corruption endemic to industries run by white guys from Harvard.
"Foreclosure crisis" presumes the problem's at the end of the chain, not the beginning.