Twenty in every 10,000 people in the United States on any given night are not realizing their American Dream.

The news on the real estate front is surely looking good. Compared with a year ago, prices are up, sales are higher, and yet more than a few people worry that today’s good news really signals little more than a short-term financial oddity.

The housing crash and the subsequent foreclosure crisis has saddled the United States with an extraordinary level of vacant properties, inflicting heavy costs to many American communities, according to Federal Reserve Board Governor Elizabeth A. Duke

Twenty in every 10,000 people in the United States on any given night are not realizing their American Dream.

The news on the real estate front is surely looking good. Compared with a year ago, prices are up, sales are higher, and yet more than a few people worry that today’s good news really signals little more than a short-term financial oddity.

The housing crash and the subsequent foreclosure crisis has saddled the United States with an extraordinary level of vacant properties, inflicting heavy costs to many American communities, according to Federal Reserve Board Governor Elizabeth A. Duke