Forget Death and Taxes, Now it’s Evictions and ForeclosuresTommi Avicolli-Meccabyline‚ Mar. 10‚ 2008Homeownership has always been the American Dream. It was the mature and sensible way of putting a roof over your head. No landlord to pay rent to. No lease to tell you what you could or couldn’t do. No restrictions on pets. If little Johnny marked up the living room wall with his magic-marker version of DaVinci’s “Last Supper,” no one was going to take it out of your security deposit. Homeownership was Ozzie and Harriet quietly raising their two-point-eight kids in a lily white suburban neighborhood with all the adorable little problems that middle-class families are supposed to experience in their daily lives. Fortunately, Ozzie and Harriet never had to worry about eviction from subprime mortgages. |