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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Aren’t those basically vacation homes?
Basically, people don’t like to live in the cold, even less so if it’s cold and full of leftists.
Maine is a beautiful state, but judging by the senators they send to DC it doesn’t speak well for the state.
Rollin', rollin', rollin'
Rollin', rollin', rollin'Keep movin', movin', movin'
Though they're disapprovin'
Keep them ILLEGALES movin'
Rawhide!
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.”
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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.
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.
I would like a definition of “vacant”
If someone is paying the property taxes and upkeep, it’s not ‘vacant’.
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?
Vacation homes count as ‘vacant’?
Found a census report saying the vacant home owners rate in Texas is 1.1%
Sounds like some states who need a good dose of “refreegeez”.
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.
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 >
I BELIEVE it means that the house is not your primary residence.
That would imply that houses are really cheap there.
Is that the case?
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