Bad Times in Vegas

Well as you may see from my few previous blogs, my life in Las Vegas doesn’t seem to be going all that well. I’m trying to keep a positive attitude about life, but it’s hard for me to see when the these hard times will dissipate. I’d love to be able to express in a better way what it has been like for me these past few years, but producing the correct words presently fail me. By chance, I was listening to a radio program last night from NPR, and felt that it was eloquent enough about what it has been like for many of us who live here to share the web link with everyone. As for Vegas, no matter what the show must go on, so let’s put on our happy faces, get out there, and break a leg. I plan to blog a little more about things here, such as City Center, in a few days. Life, as they say, is too short.

Here is the web site:

http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/foreclosure/index.html

You can download the radio program, listen online, or read the transcript.

Here are a few helpful links found with this program, if your having problems:

• Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Foreclosure Resource Center
  http://www.frbsf.org/community/issues/assets/preservation/index.html
• Nevada Foreclosure Trends
  http://www.frbsf.org/community/issues/assets/preservation/state_resources_nv.html
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development resources
  http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/econ/econ.cfm
• Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan
  http://www.treasury.gov/press/releases/tg33.htm
• The White House Blog – Help for Homeowners
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/02/18/help-for-homeowners/
• “A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Transforming America’s Housing Policy” conference
  http://transformingamericashousingpolicy.org/conference/