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Woman walks between houses in Manassas Park. Value of many properties here has dropped by half within one year.  

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Immigrant from Honduras Elsie Savalba, 25 and her daughter Alison,1  at their foreclosed home. 

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Trabitha Johnson Smith, 29, Patrizio Romano, 45,  and Trabithas son Max, 2 are moving stuff out from house of their friend and neighbour Tai Whitten, 48. Tai two months ago stopped  paying raising mortgage on her house

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Patrizio Romano, 45 and Trabitha Johnson Smith, 29 are moving stuff out from house of their friend and neighbour Tai Whitten, 48. Tai two months ago stopped  paying raising mortgage on her house

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Trabitha Johnson Smith, 29, Patrizio Romano, 45,  are moving stuff out from house of their friend and neighbour

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Trabitha Johnson Smith, 29 and Patrizio Romano, 45, left are saying goodbye to their friend and neighbour Tai Whitten, 48

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Dolls in a plastic pool by a foreclosed house.

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Young girl plays by the pile of stuff thrown out from a foreclosed house.

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Toy horse thrown away from a foreclosed house.

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Deputy Rick Booth from Manassas Sheriff Office is looking inside a foreclosed house, during eviction process

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Deputy Rick Booth from Manassas Sheriff's Office is inspecting a foreclosed house, during eviction process

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Deputy Rick Booth from Manassas Sheriff's Office is inspecting a foreclosed house

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African - american family at the shelter for homeless in Woodbridge

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One of many foreclosed houses put on auction by the lender.

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Mohamud Ali, 48, from Somalia, with his wife Fadumo, 36, and five children at the house that Mohamud has just purchased for 200 thousand $. As he says, it was worth twice as much last year.

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Mohamud Ali, 48, from Somalia, with his son at the house that Mohamud has just purchased for 200 thousand $.As he says, it was worth twice as much last year. 

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Family of Mohamud Ali from Somalia, at the house that Mohamud has just purchased for 200 thousand $.As he says, it was worth twice as much last year. 

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American flag proudly stands against darkening sky in Woodbridge.

Losing a home
Piotr Małecki

Northern Virginia, USA is an area badly hit by crisis in property market. These shots were taken in the summer of 2008, when the "World Crisis" was not an issue yet. But hundreds of thousands of houses were already foreclosed and abandoned, with no chance for their sale. Property value had dropped by half within one year. This is where it all began. Then everything started to fall like the dominoes - banks collapsed under the weight of bad debts and the industry went down with them.

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Losing a home
Piotr Małecki

Northern Virginia, USA is an area badly hit by crisis in property market. These shots were taken in the summer of 2008, when the "World Crisis" was not an issue yet. But hundreds of thousands of houses were already foreclosed and abandoned, with no chance for their sale. Property value had dropped by half within one year. This is where it all began. Then everything started to fall like the dominoes - banks collapsed under the weight of bad debts and the industry went down with them.