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Rampant Foreclosures Have Torn the Very Fabric of Northeast Ohio

By Dan Harkins

Cleveland Free Times | July 9, 2008

In this young century, we've focused our collective attention elsewhere while market forces battered the vulnerable like a hurricane. And the subprime mortgage explosion was the economic Katrina; Northeast Ohio the Gulf Coast.

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