Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/southern-california-hit-hard-by-home-foreclosures Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Vacant homes dot new developments in Southern California's Riverside County, which has been plagued by record foreclosure numbers. In an excerpt of KCET Los Angeles program SoCal Connected, correspondent Lisa Ling examines the impact of the crisis - including a company that removes belongings from foreclosed homes. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JIM LEHRER: Now, the impact of home foreclosures in the Southern California county of Riverside. We have a story originally produced by KCET Los Angeles for its program, SoCal Connected. The correspondent is Lisa Ling. LISA LING: You could say that these guys are a home's most unwelcome group of guests because they're here to grab, throw, bag, haul, and generally destroy everything left behind by the owner of this foreclosed home.The mission is to fill this dumpster as quickly as possible so it can be taken to the landfill. That's right: the landfill. Nearly everything left in this house is going to the dump.Why would people leave a big TV like that? JOHN PLOCHER, Western Security Realty Preservation: Well, I think that they didn't have the money to get a moving van and so they took what they could, threw it in their car, and they're off. We don't even know where they would go, but maybe to relatives, to a hotel. LISA LING: John Plocher owns a business that contracts with banks and mortgage companies to do this dismantling, which he calls a trash-out. The word he says he came up with because it so perfectly describes how homes are emptied.Is this house typical of a lot of the ones that you trash-out? JOHN PLOCHER: Yes, newer home, newer neighborhoods, over the last five or six years, those are the people that participated in these subprime loans. And they're the ones that are really taking the beating.