Alfred Patterson Jr., the former mortgage broker now leading County Corp’s outreach efforts to stem home foreclosures, is battling to keep financially overstretched homeowners safely under their roofs.

Everybody loses when a home is foreclosed, Patterson notes: the homeowner, the bank or lender, the neighborhood that ends up with a vacant house in it, the tax collector, and the community.

The mortgage crisis is so deep that Aaron Sorrell, manager of Housing and Neighborhood Development for the city of Dayton, equates it with the Great Flood of 1913 in the way it is remaking the cityscape.

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