Politicians all know about the Great Depression, ... While foreclosures have started to spread to "near-prime mortgages," which represent another 8 to 10 percent of the market, ...

During the Great Depression, my great grandfather and other farmers in Wisconsin organized penny auctions to help prevent some of his neighbors from losing their property to foreclosure.

Here, Marc Joseph, a foreclosure-boat-tour operator photographed above in 2009, looks back on his “best days” during the recession. The height of the market was 2005. And then it was like ...

Economists say that, so far, the United States has not seen the level of deprivation that marked the 1930s. Robert E. Miller, 87; Queen Esther Woodard, 96; and Lillie Deloatch, 88, lived through ...

At the height of the Great Depression, thousands took to the streets here to protest an eviction, sometimes violently. Now, 75 years later, many of the Depression-era woes that spawned the ...

The effects of the U.S. housing crisis may be stretching far beyond the economy, according to a study finding high rates of depression among people facing home foreclosure.

Research has long shown that home ownership correlates strongly with good health -- home owners generally have higher incomes, health insurance coverage rates and lower rates of depression. But ...