The misery of housing may despoil a community as an open sewer may ruin a river.
But some fear that drawing attention to their daily misery will damage house prices.
Many residents agree, however, that doing nothing is a recipe for continued, unplanned shrinkage and misery in the housing market.
What keeps the movie from tipping into full-blown exploitation like "City of God," which turns third-world misery into art-house thrills, is Mr. Fukunaga's sincerity.
"For a market that is apparently stabilizing, this report suggests that we need to be cautious before we call an end to the misery in the housing market," Rob Carnell, an economist at ING Bank in London, wrote in a note.
Page D1 OPPORTUNITY AMID THE MISERY As the housing market continues to stagger through another tough year, some people shopping for second homes are finding bargains in all those hundreds of thousands of foreclosures in the Sun Belt.
Somewhere in among the avalanche of graphs, statistics and stories of housing misery that make up Danny Dorling's All That Is Solid, the author acknowledges that he is in good company: the state of housing has formed the basis for recent studies and diatribes authored by everyone from "revolutionaries" to bankers and economists.
Adding to her misery was a housing market in free fall, imperiling ABC Supply, the $3 billion (sales) privately held building and roofing materials retailer.
He said that everything showed this misery: agriculture, roads, houses, church.
Slums: crumbling overcrowded shanties, often a labyrinth of clichés in misery and inadequate housing.
