Dive Brief:
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The dirtiest place to build or buy a home in America is St. Louis, MO, according to 24/7 Wall St., a financial news and opinion company.
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The organization compiled a list of the Top 10 most-polluted housing markets, using data from Homefacts, a company that tracks housing markets. The cities that made the list, the groups said, have poor air quality and manmade environmental hazards.
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The nine other “most-polluted” housing markets are: Baltimore; Hudson County, NJ; Essex County, NJ; Denver County, CO; Philadelphia County, PA; Salt Lake County, UT; Middlesex County, NJ; Jackson County, MO; and Tulsa County, OK.
Dive Insight:
Researchers counted environmental hazards per square mile and the brownfields; designated polluters per square mile; urban decay; and deindustrialization, saying these conditions lead to population loss, high unemployment, and poor household incomes.