More than 50 foreclosure stories have one word in common: Nightmare.

“Florida, in some ways, resembles a modern Ponzi scheme. Everything is fine for me if a thousand newcomers come tomorrow. The problem is…no one knew what would happen if they stopped coming.”

How the foreclosure crisis ignited a new form of activism in Chicago’s vacant homes.

A just-barred Pakistani-American attorney attempts to save a young family’s home from foreclosure and glimpses the contradiction-rich bureaucracy that has emerged in response to the housing crisis.

The author joins his father’s work crew, gutting out foreclosed houses in Florida and interviewing their former residents.