Based on approximately fifty interviews, along with analysis of data and newspaper coverage, this report compares local responses to surging foreclosures in three pairs of regions with similar housing markets and foreclosure-related challenges (St. Louis/Cleveland, East Bay/Riverside, and...

<title>Abstract</title> How should concentrated poverty be measured? U.S. scholars have almost universally defined it as census tracts in which 40 percent or more of the population falls below the official federal poverty line. This standard, originally based on a minimally acceptable diet, has become...