The headline news in the recent housing crisis was foreclosures, as record numbers of homeowners lost their homes due to difficulties with paying mortgages. In the years since, one barometer of the health of the recovering housing market has been the relative number...
The Shadow Side of the Housing Rebound
A new US News and World Report article on the recent upswing in the housing market also points out that, although the foreclosure crisis of a few years ago has largely disappeared from front-page news, it continues to loom in the background as housing starts and sales...