Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Foreclosures and short sales

[R Philip Dowds (rpdowds]

Actually, that was not my assumption.  Instead, I was calling attention to the 
fact that a 25% forced sale rate was five or six times the national average 
during the recession.  Something made this particular development a statistical 
anomaly.  It might have been a cancer cluster, but I don’t think so.

RPD

> On Feb 11, 2015, at 10:57 AM, Diana Carroll <dianaecarroll [at] gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> I'm all in favor of homebuyer education and other measures you
> mention...but I wanted to call out your assumption that a foreclosure ipso
> facto means someone was "unrealistic about housing costs".   That's just a
> variation on the standard stigma of poverty, that the problem lies within
> the person.