P.G. County's housing market the most dismal of metro area | Washington Examiner

But Lehrer argues that the County's housing market really isn't that bad when compared with the rest of the country. He also noted that unemployment in Prince George's County -- 7 percent in October -- is lower than the national jobless rate of nearly 10 percent.

"The situation in P.G. County is worse than the situation anywhere else in the D.C. metro area," he said, "but by many measures it's actually doing better than the country as a whole. This is a problem, but it's not an incredibly severe one by national standards."