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The increase of New York City bank Reo caused the home prices in general to fall by 15%. Other reasons are the cutting of jobs by Wall Street companies and bonus slashes according to economist Kenneth Rosen of University of California, Berkeley.

By New York City bank Reo is meant those houses that have undergone foreclosure and repossessed by the banks because of failure to buy suitable customers at the auctions. The New York City bank Reo houses are concentrated in some localities causing concern and blithe. These houses are attracting criminals and spreading disease. They have become dens for drug peddlers and prostitutes. The vacant reo foreclosures are being stripped off all that can be taken by vandals, depressing the market.

The Case/Shiller index of house prices noted in 20 cities of the country fell by 19% in January from what it was one year previously. This has been a record drop. In March there were 663,000 jobs lost and the unemployment figure touched a quarter century high of 8.5%.

In New York City the prices of apartments dropped by 19% during the first quarter of this year compared to the previous one year. It averaged $805,000.

William Thompson the Comptroller had predicted that March would see 250,000 jobs vanishing in the five New York boroughs before the recession would draw to a close. The unemployment rate in New York City jumped from 6.9% in January to 8.1% in February this year according to the findings of the state Labor Department.

It has been a year since Living Cities have been launched – set to find out local solutions that would restrict the devastating impact of crises like the latest sub-prime one, on urban life. This philanthropic group has the backing of 21 of the biggest foundations and financial bodies. They found that the long term answer was not so much experts but with innovatory approach, imagination and community feeling of the people.

New York City responded by creating Center for New York City Neighborhoods and its non-profit brokerage service. The brokers quickly connected buyers with foreclosed units before investors again descended. In localities like Jamaica, Queens etc this kind of speedy market intervention is crucial in preventing a rerun of the past crisis by allowing speculators to have the last say again.

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