And so even the neighbors who are left who are in foreclosure, they are finding that they have a hard time selling theirhomes for the prices that they need to satisfy their mortgages because the housing market has headed south so badly.
For all his powers of persuasion, even Mr Chavez may find it hard to convince those who lost theirhomes to leave their jobs and neighbourhoods too, and to join the government's planned new agricultural communities in the thinly inhabited interior.
Since home equity is the largest source of wealth for most Americans, young households were especially hard hit, as many are now underwater on theirhomes.