The Midwest has been hard hit by the foreclosure crisis and certainly Columbus has not escaped its fair share of foreclosures. In fact, Cleveland and Cincinnati have been hit even harder.
During election season, it’s always fun to politicize real estate. This map, courtesy of hotpads, is a heat map of foreclosures by congressional district. The more foreclosures per capita in a district, the hotter red it is. No foreclosures in a district It’ll be cold and blue. Notice our 15th congressional district is pretty much red hot.
But wait. Just this morning I heard that the company everybody uses to track foreclosures, realtytrac.com, doesn’t include rural areas. Doesn’t include rural areas Do you mean to tell me that all those numbers we’ve been hearing over the last 18 months or so don’t even include rural areas It’s true, to the tune of not reporting on more than 900 rural counties.
That explains the foreclosure heat map of Ohio’s congressional districts even better, doesn’t it No wonder West Virginia is ice cold.
The Midwest has been hard hit by the foreclosure crisis and certainly Columbus has not escaped its fair share of foreclosures. In fact, Cleveland and Cincinnati have been hit even harder.
No foreclosures in a district It’ll be cold and blue. Notice our 15th congressional district is pretty much red hot.
