Behind the foreclosure crisis in three U.S. cities

To answer nagging questions about the foreclosure crisis, Jennifer LaFleur of ProPublica and Sanjay Bhatt of The Seattle Times built a database based on a random sample of some 1,200 foreclosure filings from the central county of three metro areas -- Seattle, Phoenix and Baltimore. Their findings challenge some of the conventional wisdom about the foreclosure crisis and reveal regional differences in who got into trouble and why.