People with the means to do so move up the housing ladder, trading in smaller, less expensive places for larger, better-equipped ones that are perhaps even in a better neighborhood. So why shouldn’t people who no longer can afford the house they live in be able to move back down the ladder as they fight foreclosure, replacing – but not displacing –a family that is having money problems of its own?

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