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Saturday, October 4, 2008

The Inland Empire's Less Flattering New Nickname: "Foreclosure Alley"



New KCET series "SoCal Connected" travels to the Inland Empire -- or as the show has redubbed it, "Foreclosure Alley" -- to document the impact of the current housing mess. It ain't pretty. Correspondent Lisa Ling writes:

SoCal Connected tracked down some surreal sights associated with the crisis - a company that specializes in removing whatever people leave behind in their foreclosed homes. The process is called a “trashout” - a term the company came up with because it perfectly describes what happens. Everything that’s left is dumped in a trailer and taken to the landfill.

Then there’s the guy who started a business to spray-paint dead lawns. That’s right. He paints brown lawns green. We also tag along with a couple of code enforcement officers who are spending more and more of their time having to drain slimy, abandoned pools.

Have we hit bottom yet? What will "bottom" feel like?

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