Saturday, June 12, 2010

The real estate problems have been "solved" ya know

So there is NO need for something as "radical" as a moratorium on foreclosures.
'America's Foreclosure King'
How the United States Became a PR Disaster for Deutsche Bank
By Christoph Pauly and Thomas Schulz
Deutsche Bank is deeply involved in the American real estate crisis. After initially profiting from subprime mortgages, it is now arranging to have many of these homes sold at foreclosure auctions. The damage to the bank's image in the United States is growing.
The small city of New Haven, on the Atlantic coast and home to elite Yale University, is only two hours northeast of New York City. It is a particularly beautiful place in the fall, during the warm days of Indian summer.
But this idyllic image has turned cloudy of late, with a growing number of houses in New Haven looking like the one at 130 Peck Street: vacant for months, the doors nailed shut, the yard derelict and overgrown and the last residents ejected after having lost the house in a foreclosure auction. And like 130 Peck Street, many of these homes are owned by Germany's Deutsche Bank.
"In the last few years, Deutsche Bank has been responsible for far and away the most foreclosures here," says Eva Heintzelman. She is the director of the ROOF Project, which addresses the consequences of the foreclosure crisis in New Haven in collaboration with the city administration. According to Heintzelman, Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank plays such a significant role in New Haven that the city's mayor requested a meeting with bank officials last spring. more

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