The front of a boarded up building in the Mount Pleasant section of Cleveland, Ohio, 25 January 2008. The area is filled with homes for sale or on the auction block. The city of Cleveland is the epicenter of the nation’s home foreclosure crisis and is creating bad news for nearby homeowners and cities across the country because they lead to falling property values and increased crime. AFP PHOTO/Timothy A. CLARY (Photo credit should read TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP/Getty Images)
