Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Ordinary Citizen. Arianna Huffington

¹⁸³ didn’t contain a single dollar for foreclosure-related legal help.

      Although Americans losing their homes are being treated like an afterthought, foreclosures are actually a gateway calamity. Every foreclosure is a crisis that begets a whole other set of crises. When families lose their homes, they are forced to move in with relatives, or into a motel, or live out of a car, or on the street. Meanwhile, the home sits vacant. Surrounding home values drop. Others in the neighborhood move out. In many communities, squatters move in. Crime goes up. Tax revenues plummet, taking school bud gets down with them.