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Empty, foreclosed houses burden cities, neighborhoods

Abandoned or bank-owned houses pose growing problems for neighbors and officials in Washington cities hit hardest by the foreclosure crisis. Above, a trailer trash bin in the driveway stands nearly half full of junk cleared from the vacant home once police removed squatters.

ELLEN M. BANNER / THE SEATTLE TIMES

Abandoned or bank-owned houses pose growing problems for neighbors and officials in Washington cities hit hardest by the foreclosure crisis. Above, a trailer trash bin in the driveway stands nearly half full of junk cleared from the vacant home once police removed squatters.

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