When the housing crisis hit, a charming cottage in a coastal Alabama subdivision became an albatross for Wall Street Journal reporter Ryan Dezember. Meggan Haller for The Wall Street JournalThe Saturday Essay My 10-Year Odyssey Through America’s Housing Crisis Misery over real estate hasn’t ended—2.5 million homes are still worth less than their mortgages. Here’s the story of one Wall Street Journal reporter’s upside-down American dream.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 26, 2018 15:49 UTC