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child advocates.net. So Indiana has the third highest foreclosure filing rate in the United States.

That's scary.

Uh-huh.

Uh, especially here in Marion County.

It is Kendall and Casey.

It's 93 WIBC.

So there were 544 filings in 21.

And if you...

2020.

2,021.

Yeah.

And if you go to last year's number, it has risen to 1,130.

So basically three times the amount of people are seeing their homes foreclosed in a three-year span.

Correct.

And a big portion.

Because Wish TV had an article about this the other day that a big driver of this is that people can no longer

afford their homes because of the property tax slash insurance associated with rising home

cost increases. Right. So they say the foreclosures, they're affecting neighborhoods across

Indianapolis, especially ones around 38th Street, downtown, and the east side along 465.

Well, the whole system is broken.

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