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Top 25 Vacant Neighborhoods

By The Associated Press Associated Press Writer

May 4th, 2009 |

A list of the 25 neighborhoods with the highest percentage of vacant homes, according to an Associated Press analysis of federal data. The AP analysis included only census tracts with more than 1,000 housing units and less than 5 percent vacation homes, according to the 2000 census.

County State Tract Homes Empty Pct

Franklin Ohio 82.3 1711 1158 67.7

Hamilton Ohio 9 1212 773 63.8

Hamilton Ohio 16 1154 587 50.9

Berkeley S.C. 207.03 2030 874 43.1

Wayne N.C. 5 1812 779 43.0

El Paso Colo. 38 1363 579 42.5

Yuba Calif. 409.02 2058 866 42.1

Cook Ill. 5401 3215 1344 41.8

Montgomery Ohio 8.02 1739 705 40.5

Marion Ind. 3550 1268 511 40.3

Wayne Mich. 5004 1134 442 39.0

Baltimore city Md. 802 1184 455 38.4

Linn Iowa 22 1135 434 38.2

Jefferson Ala. 51.01 1349 504 37.4

Genesee Mich. 15 1199 440 36.7

Fulton Ga. 23 1388 503 36.2

St Louis city Mo. 1267 1187 413 34.8

Wayne Mich. 5332 1136 395 34.8

Delaware Ind. 2 1118 385 34.4

Marion Ind. 3526 2046 702 34.3

Wayne Mich. 5079 1607 551 34.3

Wayne Mich. 5538 1138 388 34.1

Montgomery Ala. 2 1006 342 34.0

St Louis city Mo. 1241 2553 867 34.0

Jefferson Ala. 30.02 1570 532 33.9

Wayne Mich. 5333 1199 406 33.9

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Source: Housing and Urban Development Department, U.S. Postal Service

(This version CORRECTS that data involves less than 5 percent vacation homes, not vacant homes. This item moved previously as an advance and is now available for use.)

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Ann Cvetkovich 

Public Feelings 

South Atlantic Quarterly 106:3, Summer 2007

 Begun in 2001, our investigation has coincided with and operated in 

the shadow of September 11 and its ongoing consequences—war in Iraq, a 

sentimental takeover of 9/11 to underwrite militarism, Bush’s reelection, 

and the list goes on. Rather than analyzing the geopolitical underpinnings 

of these developments, we’ve been more interested in their emotional 

dynamics. What makes it possible for people to vote for Bush or to assent to 

war, and how do these political decisions operate within the context of daily 

lives that are pervaded by a combination of anxiety and numbness? How 

can we, as intellectuals and activists, acknowledge our own political disap- 

pointments and failures in a way that can be enabling? Where might hope 

be possible? Those questions stem from our experience of what one of our 

cells, Feel Tank Chicago, has called “political depression,” the sense that 

customary forms of political response, including direct action and critical 

analysis, are no longer working either to change the world or to make us 

feel better. The concept of political depression is not, however, meant to be 

wholly depressing; indeed, Feel Tank has operated with the camp humor 

one might expect from a group of seasoned queer activists, organizing an 

International Day of the Politically Depressed in which participants were 

invited to show up in their bathrobes to indicate their fatigue with tradi- 

tional forms of protest and distributing T-shirts and refrigerator magnets 

carrying the slogan “Depressed? It Might Be Political!”1 The goal is to depa- 

thologize negative affects so that they can be seen as a possible resource for 

political action rather than as its antithesis. This is not, however, to suggest 

that depression is thereby converted into a positive experience; it retains 

its associations with inertia and despair, if not apathy and indifference, but 

these affects become sites of publicity and community formation.

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