Cleveland is New Orleans [2], where the foreclosure crisis, like Katrina, is just a perfect storm for corporate greed and local corruption run amok.
.....And the more I looked around and saw these things, the more I realized what I was really witnessing: people making the most out of a life in which nonnegotiable decisions about what stays and what goes are ultimately being made in boardrooms.
Links:
[1] http://www.flickr.com/photos/preservationnation/sets/72157611250071987/
[2] http://blogs.nationaltrust.org/preservationnation/?p=2231
[3] http://realneo.us/image/alive