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As families are forced out of their homes after falling behind on mortgage payments, a nationwide glut of foreclosed homes is expected to depress U.S. housing values for years.

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Oct. 5, 2011

Brandie Barbiere, center, reacts as Weld County sheriff's deputy Mary Schwartz arrives to evict her and her family from their home in Miliken, Colo. Barbiere said she had stopped making the mortgage payments 11 months before, after she lost more than half her home child care business due to the economy. A nationwide glut of foreclosed homes is expected to depress U.S. housing values for years.

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