October 8, 2012
By Benjamin Spillman
Las Vegas Review Journal
Sileshi Kassa is nothing if not persistent.
The 61-year-old Ethiopian immigrant slogged through a bureaucratic bog for two years so that he could save his family's Las Vegas-area house from foreclosure.
But the global recession arrived like a tsunami in 2008 and swamped Kassa, and more than 150,000 others. Driving a cab was no longer enough to maintain the mortgage.
