NYC's foreclosures continue slow avalanche | Crain's New York Business
The rate of foreclosures may be stabilizing in most big American cities, but that's not the case here, according to new data.
In the New York metro area, the foreclosure rate rose to 7.5% in June, up 2.1 percentage points from the previous peak in December 2009, according to Foreclosure-Response.org, a joint project by the Local Initiatives Support Corp., the Urban Institute and the Center for Housing Policy. The rate is up 3.7 percentage points from March 2009, when the group started tracking the data in 100 U.S. metro areas.
“New York is a judicial state, so it takes a long time for properties that enter foreclosure to exit the process,” said Rob Pitingolo, a research assistant for Urban Institute. “The backlog of foreclosures in the system is driving the foreclosure rates up.”
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Since when did speed become the overriding virtue of the judicial system?
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