Wayne County , MIchigan starts foreclosing on record 75K properties

The Detroit News reports:

Detroit – — Wayne County has begun tax foreclosure proceedings on nearly 75,000 properties, a record number that includes thousands of delinquent accounts that officials have ignored for years.

Treasury workers last month began posting notices on the properties that the county plans to auction in fall 2015 if owners don't pay taxes or agree to payment plans. In Detroit alone, 62,000 properties owing $326.4 million in taxes, interest and fees are set to be foreclosed.

More than half of those Detroit homes — 37,000 — are occupied, according to Motor City Mapping data analyzed by Loveland Technologies. That has folks such as Sharon Weatherly fearing she eventually could be out on the street.

"It's just heartbreaking ... to think they may snatch my house because I got a little behind," said the single mother on disability who uses a wheelchair. She faces foreclosure over the $3,700 she owes.

The sad moments of Blue America.