Category: Foreclosure

Survival rule two: double tap: Part 2, Nut up or shut up

16 May, 2013 (09:00) | Foreclosure, Housing, Law, liens, Markets, Rental, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   By:David A. Smith   We are all orphans in Zombieland   I could tell she knew what I was feeling, we all are orphans in Zombieland – Columbus, from Zombieland   When dealing with a foreclosure-limbo property, imprecisely if visually presented by two stories in Reuters (March 28, 2013) [...]

Survival rule two: double tap: Part 1, Woulda, coulda, shoulda

15 May, 2013 (10:13) | Foreclosure, Housing, Law, liens, Markets, Rental, US News | No comments

By:David A. Smith     In those moments where you’re not quite sure if the undead are really dead, dead, don’t get all stingy with your bullets. I mean, one more clean shot to the head, and this lady could have avoided becoming a human Happy Meal. Woulda … coulda … shoulda. – Columbus, from [...]

A street at war: Part 2, after the City’s task force

1 February, 2013 (12:10) | Boston, Cities, Ecosystem, Foreclosure, Hendry Street, Homeownership, Housing, informality, Neighborhood, Rental, Subprime |

By:David A. Smith   [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   Yesterday’s post, using excellent gritty reporting from Globe reporters (Andrew Ryan, Meghan E. Irons, Akilah Johnson, Maria Cramer, and Jenna Russell) published in the Boston Globe (December 18, 2012), followed the timeline of Hendry Street (blue font) in Dorchester, one of Boston’s worst neighborhoods, in [...]

A street at war: Part 1, before the City’s task force

1 February, 2013 (12:07) | Boston, Cities, Ecosystem, Foreclosure, Hendry Street, Homeownership, Housing, informality, Neighborhood, Rental, Subprime |

By:David A. Smith   For years, if not decades, a siege war has been fought on Hendry Street in the Dorchester section of Boston.  Like most wars, this one is dominated by boredom punctuated by brief intervals of sheer terror, but unlike most wars, this one is was largely unreported until an enterprising team of [...]

Month in Review, November, 2012: Part 2, Here at home

11 January, 2013 (10:00) | Argentina, Camden, China, Euro, Foreclosure, Global news, Haiti, Homeless, Month in review, Municipal bankruptcy, Non-Profits, NYCHA, Paris, Public housing, Spain, US News |

[Previous Month in Reviews available here: Oct 12, Sep 12, Aug 12, Jul 12, Jun 12, May 12]   By:David A. Smith   [Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]   As we saw in yesterday’s Part 1, affordable housing and urban troubles abound globally, but we need look no further than our front stoop to find [...]