At Vacant Homes, Foraging for Fruit

[jeffrey]

As she does every evening, Kelly Callahan walked her dogs through her East Atlanta neighborhood. As in many communities in a city with the 16th-highest foreclosure rate in the nation, there were plenty of empty, bank-owned properties for sale.

She noticed something else. Those forlorn yards were peppered with overgrown gardens and big fruit trees, all bulging with the kind of bounty that comes from the high heat and afternoon thunderstorms that have defined Atlanta’s summer...

At Vacant Homes, Foraging for Fruit - NYTimes.com

[bjl584]

That's interesting. At least that's a productive and non-harmful way of taking advantage of foreclosed houses. It's certainly a lot better than the people that break into vacant homes and steal the copper pipes.