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ProPublica's mesmerizing and groundbreaking go through the national housing turmoil, told through the zoom lens of one woman whose story emerged to exemplify it. Sheila Ramos's report mirrors the lives of an incredible number of Americans who've lost their homes since the start of the housing turmoil in 2007. The Great American Foreclosure Tale details with clearness and empathy the road that led Ramos therefore many like her toward financial ruin. Once the owner of a little business and a home, Ramos dropped on crisis. Predatory financing and denied loan-modification applications eventually directed her and her three grandchildren packing, leaving behind their residence in Florida and winding up in a tent outside of Ramos's faraway hometown. Alongside Ramos's report are additional investigations by ProPublica reporter Paul Kiel and his co-workers Olga Pierce and Cora Currier documenting the systematic failures at banks, mortgage loan servicers, and federal government watchdogs that have exacerbated the country's most unfortunate foreclosure crisis since the Great Depression. Drawing from whistleblower testimonies, intensive homeowner databases, and a trove of underlying data, The Great American Foreclosure Tale is a comprehensive and unrivaled go through the housing crisis, and its continuing people toll.
