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devastating neighborhoods still reeling from the pain. dozens of homes have piles of trash where people used to be. one foreclosure every 80 housing units is in foreclosure. bank repossessions and default notices are up as well, and thousands of those homes are in the east bay. nbc bay area s jodi hernandez is live where the problem isn t just plummeting home values, it s become a health issue, too. it really has. the city of richmond has become a dumping ground as paem use those vacant lots to discard their filthy trafsh. that trash often includes used syring syringes, dirty diapers and used condoms. not at all what you want right next door. construction materials, debris, household garbage, waste. this is what people in richmond are forced to look at and live next to as hundreds of abandoned and foreclosed properties have become dumping grounds filled with garbage. it s much cheaper for them to just find a vacant lot, find a vacant property, dump it and they ....