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Surviving the perfect economic storm: tent cities in America (Foreclosure Week)

By Mark Ireland

From the Library of Congress, we have a photographic collage of Hoovervilles (the tent cities that popped up around cities during the Great Depression). And now we have the Houses that Greenspan Built: (photo: Library of Congress) Mark Ireland is a consumer rights lawyer, and will be posting at Caveat Emptor until March 20, 2009. Related posts:The five (mental) [...] Related posts:

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Full post as published by Caveat Emptor on March 19, 2009 (boomark / email).

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