Homeowners in limbo as mortgages go unpaid, foreclosures drag on

The home-foreclosure process is taking so long in New Jersey that homeowners in distress now have more than 2 1/2 years, on average, from the time the lender first initiates the process to the time they actually are forced out of the home.

Slab City: Living Off the Grid in California's Badlands

"Chicago" Joe Angio and his wife Anna did everything by the book to secure their slice of the American Dream. They earned college degrees, started a small business, bought a house and pair of cars, paid their taxes and credit-card bills on time. But when the economy tanked, so did the dream. Between two jobs they could barely pay their mortgage, reaching a point where they had to choose which ...

Foreclosure Crisis Erases Hard-Won Wealth, Dreams Even In Center Of Black Affluence

BOWIE, Md. -- In the spring of 2007, a few months after Osita Otigba and his wife, Peace, moved to Balk Hill, a new subdivision then being busily developed in this picturesque Washington, D.C., suburb, they organized their cul-de-sac's first-ever block party.

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