One Block - Ten Vacant Homes

In St. Paul, Minnesota, South West Review decribes the condition of a one block stretch of Sims Avenue between Payne Avenue and Greenbrier Street that's been hammered by foreclosures:

• Of the 23 homes on the block, 10 are vacant or somewhere in the foreclosure process. Down at City Hall, it is known as the most worrisome block in the city, the block hardest hit by the current real-estate meltdown. "One side of the street is almost all vacant," says Bob Kessler, head of St. Paul's Department of Safety and Inspection.

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