Great story in the Times today about an East Baltimore man whose taken it upon himself to ease the foreclosure crisis in his neighborhood through counseling. But since those peak years, foreclosures have fallen by more than a third, a development that Thomas E. Perez, Maryland’s secretary of labor, licensing and regulation, says can be largely credited to Mr. Miller’s group, the Belair-Edison Neighborhood Initiative, which uses public records and street level marketing to reach high-risk borrowers before they fall too far behind.
“People all too frequently hide, or get embarrassed, or put their heads in the sand, but delay is disastrous,” Mr. Perez said. If only some in positions of power were as thoughtful.
Adam Doster, a contributing editor at In These Times, is a Chicago-based freelance writer and former reporter-blogger for Progress Illinois.
