Thursday, March 05, 2009

Poughkeepsie: Housing woes, by the numbers

The federal government's new program to stem a wave of home foreclosures will help many, but not all, local experts told the Poughkeepsie Journal for a story today. In surrounding Dutchess County, the number of foreclosures has climbed for the last five years; there were more than 1,300 last year. File photo by Spencer Ainsley, Journal, via Newseum. (Bigger, more readable view.)

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3 comments:

  1. Gotta love the PoJo -- I miss the great old days of the 80s and early 90s there.

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