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You’ve been paying your rent dutifully month after month and even started a little garden in the backyard. Now, there’s a notice on the front door saying your place is in foreclosure. Even though you’re a renter, you’ve now been unwittingly pulled into the housing crisis.
It’s hardly a unique scenario.
In 2009, around 37 percent of all foreclosures in California were rental properties affecting more than 200,000 people, according to Tenants Together, a renters’ rights group.
In San Diego, 40 percent of the 16,000 foreclosed residential properties last year were rental units, which included single-family homes and apartments.
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