Subprime Crisis Hits Holidays

NPR | By Joel Rose

Published December 26, 2007 at 12:18 PM EST

The subprime mortgage crisis is affecting people across the country, in all walks of life. This week we have several stories of people at risk of losing their homes.

One woman in Philadelphia tells the story of her struggle to keep up with rising mortgage rates.

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Joel Rose is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. As the network’s transportation correspondent since 2023, Rose’s reporting focuses on roadway and pedestrian safety, an air travel system under stress and how emerging technologies are changing the ways we get around.

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