Friday, October 10, 2008
Meanwhile - in Providence, RI
Sit down first, then read this.
Maybe you should put some towels nearby in case your head explodes...
Maybe you should put some towels nearby in case your head explodes...
Lynn Arditi writes in the Providence Journal. This is only the lead-in:
"In zip code 02907 of the city’s West End, where the house-foreclosure rate is more than six times the statewide average, postman Mike Ferreira’s delivery route is shrinking.
On Bellevue Avenue, homeowners who plant flower gardens and sweep their front steps live next door to boarded-up triple-deckers with weedy yards and trash-strewn sidewalks. Foreclosures have a way of rotting neighborhoods like cavities, from the inside out.
Five of the 49 houses on one block of Bellevue Avenue are vacant. And this is one of the better streets."
