Patrick.net

http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/making-it-home/after-the-foreclosures-what-we-leave-behind
"The scenes in REOs are post-apocalyptic and wrought with loss. Weeds invade overgrown lawns, and leaves pile up on porches, sidewalks, patios. Gutters, clogged, dangle from roofs, torn loose by wind. Forgotten chimes have tangled. Newspapers and phonebooks turn to papier-mâché in plastic bags tossed against doorsteps: no hands to collect them, no eyes to read their pages. There are rusty cars, litter tumbled against their wheel-wells, tires flat, batteries dead, no keys—no feet to push their pedals. "