Lack of jobs, not banks, to blame for blighted homes, governor says

Sun-Sentinel Tuesday 1st May, 2012

Rick Scott said Tuesday he was caught aback by the Sun Sentinel's investigation of how banks have established foreclosure practices that have left thousands of South Florida homes to decay, devastating neighborhoods."Maybe I don't ask enough questions about it, and I will now," he said in response to a series of stories the newspaper published this week regarding bad-neighbor banks.The Sun Sentinel found that some banks evade responsibility for a...

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