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Anatomy of a Meldown: The Credit Crisis

A three-part series by The Washington Post dissects the current credit crisis. The series looks at how forces aligned to create "the biggest American housing boom since the 1950s," the […]
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House of pain

Cary Spivak and Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel detailed how a motley collection of individuals and firms made money off one suspicious real estate deal in which a […]
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Forced Out

A series by Debbie Cenziper and Sarah Cohen of The Washington Post looks at the condo boom in the District of Columbia. Tenants are being displaced as landlords convert apartments […]
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Seniors targeted in subprime refinancing

Susan Kelleher and Justin Mayo of The Seattle Times looked at how older borrowers and homeowners are targeted for predatory loans. Analysis of over 4,000 loans from Ameriquest Mortgage uncovered […]
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Scam hits struggling homeowners

A mortgage scam has deceived homeowners in 27 states, including at least 17 in New Jersey. Jason Method of the (Neptune, N.J.) Asbury Park Press investigated the fraud, in which […]
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More mayhem in the Meadowlands

In an ongoing investigation, Jeff Pillets of The Record in Bergen County, N.J., uncovered how a taxpayer-supported plan to reclaim the North Jersey Meadowlands instead reopened the infamous garbage dumps […]
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Neglect plagues property holdings of ex-NBA star

An investigation by The Sacramento Bee's Terri Handy and Phillip Reese shows that former NBA star Kevin Johnson is responsible for a slew of neglected properties in the downtrodden area […]
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Subprime crunch felt on Jersey Shore

The Asbury Park(N.J.) Press analyzed federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data to report that in Monmouth and Ocean counties subprime lending accounted for one out of five mortgages in 2006, […]
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Florida faces downturn in real estate, jobs

Florida Today published a three-part report on how the local economic boom has gone bust. "The shifting real estate market has spooked homebuyers, frustrated sellers, stalled new development and trapped […]
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Bad loans spread problems across U.S.

Rich Brooks and Constance Mitchell Ford of the Wall Street Journal examine the sad state of the country's mortgage markets, finding evidence to dispel the conventional wisdom that subprime loans […]
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