By next Wednesday, November 26, there will 109 more families between Elkhart and St.Joseph counties that will have their homes taken away from them due to foreclosure. Sixty seven of those families are from Elkhart county and fourty-two from St. Joseph county. Houses ranging in value from $28,000 to $681,000. The house that owes $681,000 is one of only 2 that owes over $200,000. If this is not main street America, then I don't know what is.
A recent magazine artice, I beleive it was in Newsweek, pointed out that Elkhart county has had the largest rise of unemployment from one year to the next in the country. The article continued to write about a recent ordinance that was passed in Elkhart county that limited the number or yard/garage sales to one per family per month due to the large number of families that are having them. Families selling off whatever they can just to put food on the table.
This coming Thursday, November 27, is Thanksgiving. Puts a little perspective on it, doesn't it?
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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Wow, that's an astonishing number. Where do you get the stats? Just curious. My heart breaks for those families. Lord be with them.
Those numbers came directly from the St. Joseph and Elkhart county Sherrifs department.
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