States where no one wants to build a home

Building permit activity has fallen since the crash in 2007, but there are signs that builders have almost completely stopped activity in a number of states, where no one seems to want to buy a new home. At the top (or bottom) of the list is Rhode Island, where building permits have declined 70.81 percent in the last six years, and there are just 312 building permits so far this year. New York, which has one of the largest housing markets in the country, has seen 11,033 building permits in 2011, but that number is a 61.8 percent drop from 2005 — and less than half of the 28,921 permits taken out in 2005. Florida is not among the top 10. [MSNBC]