10 states no one wants to buy a home in

The blog 24/7 Wall St. examined the number of new housing permits for the first half of the year to find the states with the lowest demand for new homes. New York, Michigan, and Illinois all made the top 10. Find out which state had the lowest percentage

August 23, 2011

24/7 Wall St. examined the number of building permits to find the states where no one wants to buy a new home. It looked at the total number of building permits issued by each state for the first half of the year. It then identified the states that had the lowest percentage of new housing permits as compared to the total number of housing units.