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Foreclosing Cleveland: a must-read blog from Bill Callahan


Maybe Bill (Callahan, of Callahan’s Cleveland Diary) just got tired of being called The Utility Blogger, but I like that moniker because of the multiple meanings of “utility.”

Nevertheless, we are incredibly lucky that he has started Foreclosing Cleveland (though not because we are lucky to have the issue of foreclosures in Cleveland hit a critical enough mass that it can now be followed substantively by a blog):

In the crisis of home foreclosure, abandonment and equity destruction sweeping across the U.S. for the past five years, Cleveland has been — and continues to be — Ground Zero. The purpose of this website is to document this ongoing civic disaster, its perpetrators, its consequences, and the efforts of Cleveland’s people to overcome them.

My name is Bill Callahan. I live in Cleveland, where I’ve worked in community organizing, community development and community technology since 1980. I began writing systematically about the foreclosure crisis on my blog, Callahan’s Cleveland Diary, in July 2007.

Some of the entries on Foreclosing Cleveland will be cross-posts from Cleveland Diary. But this blog aspires to add more voices, more links, more resources — and easier access to the huge pool of relevant information — than I can manage on a site with less focus.

And let me just say, the fact that WLST made the short list of his first iteration of a blogroll on the new site means more than pretty much any other recognition I’ve ever gotten so far for blogging. Really, Bill. Thanks.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:09 am October 20th, 2007 in Announcements, Blogging, Business, Economy, Media, Politics 

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