Boston foreclosures on a map

By adamg on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 11:57pm

John Keith maps all the foreclosures in the city for January, 2008.

Free tagging:

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God help us

By bobmetcalf on Sat, 02/23/2008 - 10:01am.

Does this mean that that horrible troll
"anonymous" is going to go on another
Dorchester rant?

How many hits of crack is a laptop worth?

By Anonymous on Sat, 02/23/2008 - 10:08am.

He would, but he was walking down Dot Ave on the way to some Ethnic trendy restaurant or to take a tour of the areas historic check cashing establishments, but someone stole his laptop. ;)

That's quite a clustering

By Ron Newman on Sat, 02/23/2008 - 10:15am.

The distribution on that map is striking. You have whole neighborhoods without any foreclosures at all -- Allston-Brighton, Jamaica Plain, Mission Hill, Fenway, South End, Back Bay. Then you have some neighborhoods with a few scattered dots --Roxbury, Southie, Eastie, Hyde Park, Roslindale, Mattapan. And then there's Dorchester. Wow.

It also matches up fairly well with ...

By adamg on Sat, 02/23/2008 - 8:39pm.

The murder map for the past year. Basically, certain poor neighborhoods are not catching a break.