> 17% of all homeowners in the 2008 mortgage crisis walked away strategically That is a quite misleading restatement of the facts. 2 of 144 million homes in th

> 17% of all homeowners in the 2008 mortgage crisis walked away strategically That is a quite misleading restatement of the facts. 2 of 144 million homes in the US were foreclosed in 2008, and 17% of those were deemed "strategic". That's 0.2% of homes.