One of many now-vacant houses in the gated-community of San Niccolo, in a suburb of Las Vegas, which has been hit hard by the housing slump. Scenes like this one: dead lawn, trash-littered yard, and piles of old phone-books on the walkway, are common in the neighborhood, and are tell-tale signs of the foreclosure crisis. (Krissy Clark)

Gated Into Foreclosure

One of many now-vacant houses in the gated-community of San Niccolo, in a suburb of Las Vegas, which has been hit hard by the housing slump. Scenes like this one: dead lawn, trash-littered yard, and piles of old phone-books on the walkway, are common in the neighborhood, and are tell-tale signs of the foreclosure crisis.

Credit: Krissy Clark