Market failure, US housing style

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This comes from the Real World Economics Review Blog. It is a  map showing one zip code on Chicago’s South West Side, 60629.

This neighbourhood has been gutted. The red dots represent all of the properties in that zip code that are either in pre-foreclosure or are already bank owned:

If you want to know what market failure looks like, that is it.


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