Foreclosures

Huntington Beach is one of a few cities that is weighing the option to purchase its own foreclosed properties, and eventually making them affordable housing.

Foreclosures are spreading across the country like a plague, and there's almost no place worse hit than Las Vegas.

Local and regional governments in Riverside County, California, have assembled a "Red Team" task force to mitigate the impacts of the foreclosure crisis in the fastest growing region in the state.

The foreclosure scourge has moved its way into Oregon, causing some of the highest rates of loan defaults since the 1980s.

As foreclosures spread throughout the suburbs, subdivisions are rapidly becoming modern-day ghost towns, according to this column from The Seattle Times.

This video from KCET takes a look inside one of the formerly fastest-growing parts of the country as it grapples with a flood of foreclosures and abandoned properties.

As their numbers increase, students from homeless families face a slew of new challenges to their education. Some families, this article reports, don’t even know that they still have a right to an education after losing their home.

Thousands of Americans who have lost their homes in the foreclosure crisis may find themselves ineligible to vote in November.

Foreclosures and economic hardships have caused a proliferation of tent cities across the U.S.

A foreclosed home in Lake Elsinore, CA has attracted some new residents- a family of bobcats.

This article from Developer looks at five cities that are dealing creatively with their foreclosure and abandonment problems.

Foreclosure-stricken cities and states are looking forward to receiving federal relief funding. Their plans for using the funding vary.

A foreclosed property in Detroit was recently put on the market at a selling price of just one dollar.

Exurban developments are struggling to control their rampant foreclosure rates and plummeting housing values.

As foreclosures increase throughout the country, more cities are looking to solve the problem of abandoned and dilapidated houses with demolition.

In a move to combat the growing numbers of foreclosed homes and provide affordable housing, Fairfax County, Virginia, has announced plans to buy up foreclosed properties to augment the county's supply of affordable homes.

Foreclosed homes are creating blight in urban and suburban areas all across the country, lowering property values by more than $200 billion.

A homeowner on the verge of foreclosure in Las Vegas is not going down without a fight. He is literally destroying his home from the inside out.

A city councilwoman in Galt, south of Sacramento, is cited for violating city code rules on watering. That's despite the fact that the City Council had urged the public to water and care for lawns at foreclosed homes.

In California's Inland Empire, abandoned houses are plentiful- the fallout from the subprime mortgage mess. Bill Fulton reports on what some cites are doing to keep the abandoned houses from dragging down neighborhoods.