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Housing problems inspired a pair of regular Friday features. On CBS, Sharyl Attkisson's Follow the Money exposed corruption in the supposedly independent real estate appraisal business. Realtors and bankers put appraisers under pressure to inflate the value of property on pain of not being hired: "Some lenders even send out blatant mass e-mails putting appraisers in a bidding war." NBC's Making a Difference looked at the growing population of children on Skid Row in Los Angeles "living out of shelters, automobiles and sometimes the sidewalk," as George Lewis put it. Agnes Stevens, a retired schoolteacher, founded School on Wheels, a program of 400 volunteer tutors, to help homeless children keep up with their schoolwork. ABC chose a different home controversy--home schooling. In California 166,000 home-schooled children may no longer have their parents as teachers. Lisa Fletcher explained that a court ruled that parents must have teaching credentials to continue--and that "can cost upwards of $10,000."
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