One Providence Family Left Standing On Street Where Foreclosure Crisis Wiped Out The Rest Of The Block

In Providence, Rhode Island, The Providence Journal reports:

• Garbage pails outnumber residents on this sorry side street in the city’s West End. On this warm summer afternoon, the sidewalk along Ware Court is broken and empty — like the houses. All but one, that is.

• The two-story cottage at the end of the block is home to the Lewis family. They bought the house in 2001. Now they are, literally, Ware Court’s sole remaining residents. Their neighbors have all lost their homes to foreclosure. “When we bought it, every house on this street people lived in,” says Terri Lewis. Now, “every house on the street is in foreclosure but mine.”

For more, see Abandoned properties multiplying in Providence.

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