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As Dianne Huntsberry was losing her home last year, the result of a financing scam, she also wound up in the hospital – twice – for what seemed like heart problems.
“I thought I was having a heart attack – I didn’t know what was going on,” said Huntsberry, 51, who said an unlicensed broker convinced her to put his name on the deed of her Oakland home in exchange for a low rate, but then took the equity and signed the home over to a bank.
Huntsberry’s heart palpitations turned out to be an anxiety attack, which she attributed to the foreclosure. She was put on medication for high blood pressure and stress. Today, nearly a year later, she still struggles with health issues: weight gain, canker sores, skin problems, acid reflux and insomnia.
A report released Wednesday found foreclosures have not only economic consequences, but create health problems for the people and families involved – and those effects can ripple throughout a community.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/01/MN891F6B62.DTL#ixzz0yNey7KOT
