Foreclosure Waves
Replay the 2008 crisis in slow motion. Watch foreclosures ripple across America, then slowly recede.
What the data shows
The foreclosure crisis didn't hit everywhere equally. The Sand States — Nevada, Arizona, Florida, California — were ground zero, with some zip codes seeing 40%+ of homes in foreclosure. The Midwest industrial cities — Detroit, Cleveland, Gary — had their own crisis driven by deindustrialization rather than speculative lending.
By 2015, most markets have returned to baseline. But watch carefully — pockets of elevated foreclosure activity persist in specific neighborhoods, revealing structural economic vulnerability that hasn't healed in 15+ years.