Counties publish property tax delinquencies
From the well-heeled streets of the Pointes to the desolate neighborhoods of Detroit, thousands of people are facing foreclosure of their properties because they haven't paid taxes for at least two years.
In 121 printed pages of the Sunday Free Press, Wayne County Treasurer Raymond Wojtowicz listed more than 18,000 properties across Wayne County facing foreclosure. Notices sent to homeowners since March have whittled the list from 161,000 properties that had been delinquent on tax payments.
The advertisement will run the next two Sundays. The printed pages cost the county more than $400,000, and are required by law. It's just one more way the county tries to make sure property owners know that they're facing foreclosure."No one should ever be embarrassed if they have some debt," Wojtowicz said. "We all get into a scrape every so often, and during these tough economic times, we want to do everything we can to keep people in their homes."
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