tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276743.post-69697942449271115362008-06-27T14:36:00.002-04:002008-06-28T01:11:51.054-04:00Housing/Subprime/Credit Roundup — June 27, 2008Items of Interest: Kai Wright / The Nation: The Subprime Swindle -- Nearly 18,000 homes faced foreclosure in the Atlanta area during the first quarter of 2008, an almost 40 percent jump from the first quarter of 2007. In Fulton County, which encompasses most of the city's core and is heavily African-American, one in 122 homes was in foreclosure in the first week of April. A digest of Atlanta's jbnoreply@blogger.com