The City of Portland is tired of Banks not foreclosing on homes and letting them fall into disrepair, squatters and some burn down. Now the city is looking to enact new city ordinances that will allow the city to Foreclose on homes before the bank does and then sell them on the open market. Sounds like Detroit and one other city started doing foreclosures during the recession. See article link below.
http://www.opb.org/news/article/portland-abandoned-zombie-homes-foreclosure-start/
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