America’s Abandoned Cities

Real estate vacancy rates are still growing in these metros.

…a year ago.Kansas City isn’t the only metro where rental and homeowner vacancy rates are rising in tandem. Second on our list is the San Francisco-Oakland metro, where high prices are pushing Bay Area residents out of the region. Third is Tucson, Ariz., where the aftermath of the housing boom has left a glut of inventory. The pair’s predicament illustrates both sides of the vacancy coin.”There really are two reasons why you’d have vacancies: supply-related and demand-related,” says Nicolas P. Retsinas, director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. “A number of these places have experienced substantial overbuilding, which would lead you to have supply issues. Others, with troubled local economies, are more demand-related.”
In Depth: Where Housing Vacancies Are Rising…

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America’s Abandoned Cities

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