The Real Estate Wonk: Sign of the times? - Baltimore Sun reporter Jamie Smith Hopkins blogs about the local housing market

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Sign of the times?

The Los Angeles Times reports on a tiny (but still depressing) trend:

In what appears to the latest symptom of the U.S. mortgage and credit crisis, insurers, law enforcement agencies and state agencies nationwide have reported a jump in the past year in home and automobile fires set by owners unable to pay their debts. The numbers are small but are leading the insurance industry to scrutinize more closely what seem to be routine blazes.

Posted by Jamie Smith Hopkins on April 23, 2008 9:16 PM | Permalink

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Jamie Smith Hopkins, a Baltimore Sun reporter since 1999, writes about the regional economy. Her reporting on the housing market has won national and local awards. Hopkins is a Columbia native and has lived in Maryland all her life, save for 10 months spent covering schools in Ames, Iowa.
She trained to become a wonk by spending large chunks of time as a geek and an insufferable know-it-all.
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