Foreclosure crisis hits Dorchester renters hard

From the Boston Herald:

Alana Waldholz and her three sons know the heavy toll that the Hub’s foreclosure crisis is having on renters all too well.

“Truthfully, if you try to go into court and fight a bank when you’re a tenant in a foreclosure, you can kiss it goodbye,” Waldholz, 31, said in an interview from her crammed room at Malden’s Town Line Motel. “They are going to put you right out.”

Waldholz has been fighting Oregon-based LaSalle Bank for five months to stay in the three-bedroom Dorchester apartment where she’s lived since November 2007.

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