Cleveland

Revisiting Ohio’s Slavic Village, aka ‘foreclosure central’ 

Years after the financial crisis drove foreclosures to all-time highs, many neighborhoods across the U.S. are still working to find something resembling normal. Perhaps no neighborhood, however, came to symbolize the problems during surging foreclosures than did Slavic Village, a loose collection of neighborhoods surrounding Cleveland, Ohio — reporters descended on the area en masse during the crisis, to gain first-person color for their news coverage.