3 of the top 5:
Flint, MI
Detroit, MI
Gary, IN
Gosh, I can’t imagine why housing is cheap there...
Apparently quality living was not factored in.
Lots of Illinois cities in there.
Illinois has virtually the highest property taxes in the country, a minimum 6.25% sales tax (some downstate cities have 9.0% total “Home Rule” sales tax), and a 5.0% income tax—and the state is in deep annual deficits with all of that tax money.
This is primarily a list of cities where people are fleeing serious problems, moving to healthier places and driving those prices up because it’s far cheaper to live in those places in the end.
A landlord who had some empty apartments on the West Side of Gary, IN tried to move in illegals from Mexico and charge them cheap rent. Even the illegals couldn’t take in Gary and moved out within a year.