"Plywood Board" Gains In Popularity As "Window Treatment" In One Rhode Island Neighborhood

In Rhode Island, The Providence Journal reports:

• "[In one neighborhood] in the last few months, the most popular new window dressing is a plywood board. With foreclosures mounting around the city and across the state as part of the subprime mortgage lending crisis, abandoned homes in some of the city’s low- to moderate-income neighborhoods are falling into disrepair and becoming eyesores, places for people to throw their trash and tempting targets for vandals."

For more, see Foreclosures taking toll on city neighborhoods.