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“Ohio hadn鈥檛 gone through the same real estate boom as the Sun Belt, but the vultures had circled the carcasses of dying industrial towns鈥撯€揇ayton, Toledo, Mansfield, Youngstown, Akron鈥撯€損eddling home equity loans and refinancing. All the garbage that blew up in people鈥檚 faces the same way subprime mortgages had. A fleet of nouveau riche snake oil salesmen scoured the state, moving from minority hoods where widowed, churchgoing black ladies on fixed incomes made for easy marks to the white working-class enclaves and then the first-ring suburbs. The foreclosures began to crop up and then turn into fields of fast-moving weeds, reducing whole neighborhoods to abandoned husks or drug pens. Ameriquest, Countrywide, CitiFinancial鈥撯€揳ll those devious motherfuckers watching the state鈥檚 job losses, plant closings, its struggles, its heartache, and figuring out a way to make a buck on people鈥檚 desperation. Every city or town in the state had big gangrenous swaths that looked like New Canaan, the same cancer-patient-looking strip mall geography with brightly lit outposts hawking variations on usurious consumer credit. Those entrepreneurs saw the state breaking down like Bill鈥檚 truck, and they moved in, looking to sell the last working parts for scrap.”
― Stephen Markley, Ohio