In Depth: Home Alone: The Housing Crash Means Some People In Hard-Hit Areas Are Living In Deserted O

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Event Date(s): 01/02/2009 | Event Location(s): Lake County, Florida | Description: EXT DAY LAKE COUNTY, FLORIDA Various shots of construction workers using tools at home site. MS: Man hits golf ball. Panning shot of houses. MS: For Sale sign. MS: Sign "Lot #81" in vacant lot. MS: Finished street through otherwise vacant land. MS: Flag "Welcome" MS: Sign for subdivision. MS: Partly-finished houses. MS: In interview as they look at vacant lot, resident Jim Meyers (ph) tells NBC's Mark Potter, "There's vacant property here. There would have been, you know, probably on this side of the street, down the cul-de-sac, you know, six to eight homes." INT Lake County MS: Meyers and his family in kitchen of their house. EXT DAY LAKE COUNTY MS: Finished street stretches between vacant lots. MS: Meyers walks past vacant lot. Potter reports on-camera from vacant lot. MS: House behind vacant lot. Various shots of staked-out vacant lots. INT LAKE COUNTY MS: In interview property appraiser Frank Royce says, “People are not buying them. They're not being developed. In some cases, they're being foreclosed on." EXT DAY LAKE COUNTY MS: Resident Tiffany Ross (ph) plays with dog in yard. MS: She pushes child on swing set in yard. MS: Vacant lot seen beyond Ross's property. MS: In interview she says, “I would have thought that maybe they could, you know, plant some grass or something just to make it look a little bit nicer. But, yeah, it's been like this since we moved in." Various shots of construction workers on home site. MS: House next to vacant lot. Various shots of vacant lots. Potter signs off in vo from Lake County, Florida. a and c copies nat sot hit time 19:46:49