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Molly Messick

Hard-Hit Boise Subdivision Lacks Owner-Occupied Homes

Molly Messick

The housing crisis has taken a toll in Idaho. Home prices dropped by 46 percent in the Boise area and many people lost homes to foreclosure. Before the bubble burst, Charter Pointe became less a neighborhood of neighbors, and more about investor-buyers looking to make money.