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Here are the states with the most vacant houses
The Hill ^ | 08/10/2023 | Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech |

Posted on 08/10/2023 8:31:48 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Maine has the most vacant housing out of all 50 states, according to new research from real estate website LAHomes.

The Pine Tree State had an average home vacancy rate of 23.9 between 2011 and 2021, the research shows.

The state’s home vacancy rate peaked at 23.3 percent in 2013 and fell to its lowest—22.5 percent—in 2020.

Alaska and Vermont have the second and third-highest vacant home rates, respectively.

The Last Frontier state has an average home vacancy rate of 21.4 percent during that same time, LAHomes also found.

Home vacancy rates reached their highest in Alaska in 2012 and 2013 at 23.3 percent in both years and fell to their lowest in 2021 to 17.9 percent.

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Maine number 2 and Vermont number 3. Interesting.
1 posted on 08/10/2023 8:31:48 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Aren’t those basically vacation homes?


2 posted on 08/10/2023 8:32:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Basically, people don’t like to live in the cold, even less so if it’s cold and full of leftists.


3 posted on 08/10/2023 8:34:29 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maine is a beautiful state, but judging by the senators they send to DC it doesn’t speak well for the state.


4 posted on 08/10/2023 8:35:17 AM PDT by McGavin999 ( A sense of humor is a sign of intelligence, leftists have no sense of humor, therefore………)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Attention Mayor Adams...lots of houses available for your undesirable visitors in Maine, Alaska and Vermont. Get those busses warmed up and ready to roll...
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin'

Keep movin', movin', movin'
Though they're disapprovin'
Keep them ILLEGALES movin'
Rawhide!


5 posted on 08/10/2023 8:35:26 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: dfwgator

Vacation homes. That’s what I was thinking.

Sounds like the states are getting ready to confiscate them to give them to more deserving “migrants.”


6 posted on 08/10/2023 8:36:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Paging Comrade Kaprugina....Red Courtesy Phone!


7 posted on 08/10/2023 8:38:29 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Here are the states with the lowest vacant housing rates:
California—8.5 percent
Washington—8.7 percent
Iowa—9.5 percent
Connecticut—9.9 percent
Ohio—9.9 percent
Nebraska—10.02 percent
Oregon—10.03 percent
Illinois—10.1 percent
Colorado—10.3 percent
Minnesota—10.6 percent
Utah—10.7 percent

I knew Oregon would be on the list. No drugs are illegal and the best welfare in the world. All sanctuary state.
We will be buried with illegals and there’s no place to live! I’ve been trying to get home after the Alameda fire for 3 years.


8 posted on 08/10/2023 8:42:04 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: dfwgator

Yes, most are houses that are only lived in seasonally. Houses on lakes. Seasonal camps, etc. Most are second and third homes.

The coast of Maine is beautiful in August and early September.
I was in Booth Bay for July 4th one year. It was fogged in with a high of 55 degrees. I have also been on a sailboat off the coast of Camden. It was one of the most beautiful places I have even been in my life.

I central NH there are thousands of houses on lakes owned by people from other states. In the mountains of VT/NH there are thousands condos at ski areas owned by people from other states.


9 posted on 08/10/2023 8:43:16 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I would like a definition of “vacant”


10 posted on 08/10/2023 8:43:24 AM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)
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To: Codeflier

If someone is paying the property taxes and upkeep, it’s not ‘vacant’.


11 posted on 08/10/2023 8:47:09 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I can’t believe Hawaii has high vacancies. There is such a housing shortage campsites can go for $1000 a month (not quite an exaggeration). Are they counting the second houses that these leftist millionaires own as vacant?


12 posted on 08/10/2023 8:47:25 AM PDT by Othniel77
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Vacation homes count as ‘vacant’?


13 posted on 08/10/2023 8:47:35 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: AuntB

Found a census report saying the vacant home owners rate in Texas is 1.1%


14 posted on 08/10/2023 8:51:17 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sounds like some states who need a good dose of “refreegeez”.


15 posted on 08/10/2023 8:51:31 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("There's no cryin' in baseball and there's no ethics in politics!" )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The reason there are so many empty houses in northern New England is that those vacation houses are easy driving distance from all the big northeastern cities. So, many people that live in Boston, Providence, NYC, Hartford, etc can drive to those vacation homes in a few hours.


16 posted on 08/10/2023 8:52:32 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Do you mean put them to work rehabbing these vacant homes? How insensitive and inhumane when we can put them in hotels and build more section 8 housing! < / sarcasm >


17 posted on 08/10/2023 8:55:00 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: Codeflier

I BELIEVE it means that the house is not your primary residence.


18 posted on 08/10/2023 8:55:01 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That would imply that houses are really cheap there.

Is that the case?


19 posted on 08/10/2023 8:55:32 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Sounds like the states are getting ready to confiscate them to give them to more deserving “migrants.”

Biden says I like how you think.

20 posted on 08/10/2023 8:59:50 AM PDT by BipolarBob (5 out of 4 people have trouble with fractions.)
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